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PXE boot on linux, add menu option to 'boot strap' WDS service.

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PXE boot on linux, add menu option to 'boot strap' WDS service.
posted by James Braid on Sept. 25, 2017, 5:55 p.m. (1 day ago)
On 25 September 2017 at 14:33, greg whynott wrote: >> Hello, >> We want to set up PXE running on UNIX to be able to 'launch' WDS from our windows servers. Anyone done this? > Yes - I've used iPXE to do this. The trick is that iPXE can set DHCP options and then load another PXE bootloader. The environment used pxelinux as the default PXE loader/boot menu/etc and I didn't want to replace it with iPXE just to make WDS work, so I had pxelinux load a custom iPXE build with a baked in script to automatically set the right options for WDS and then iPXE would load the WDS loader directly from the WDS server. A little complicated but it meant we could integrate WDS with a minimum of changes to the existing environment. Looks like someone has kindly documented the iPXE set up here: http://ipxe.org/appnote/chainload_wds James To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe
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On 25 September 2017 at 14:33, greg whynott wrote: >> Hello, >> We want to set up PXE running on UNIX to be able to 'launch' WDS from our windows servers. Anyone done this? > Yes - I've used iPXE to do this. The trick is that iPXE can set DHCP options and then load another PXE bootloader. The environment used pxelinux as the default PXE loader/boot menu/etc and I didn't want to replace it with iPXE just to make WDS work, so I had pxelinux load a custom iPXE build with a baked in script to automatically set the right options for WDS and then iPXE would load the WDS loader directly from the WDS server. A little complicated but it meant we could integrate WDS with a minimum of changes to the existing environment. Looks like someone has kindly documented the iPXE set up here: http://ipxe.org/appnote/chainload_wds James To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe

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