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Connection reset (0x0f0a6039)

Ladislav Jerabek — 2013-05-12T21:45:02

Hello.

I have a dedicated server at 1and1.com and I would like to boot it
using gPXE from my other VPS (FreeBSD) server via HTTP (Apache). gPXE
seems to get correct address from DHCP but after that, when trying to
contact the HTTP server I recieve error: Connection reset
(0x0f0a6039). Does anybody have any experience with this error please?

Thank you very much!

Sincerely,
Ladislav Jerabek

Re: gPXE RHEL kickstart without DHCP

Matthew Helton — 2013-05-04T23:09:34

You're close...

Try

#!gpxe
ifstat
set net0/ip <host IP>
set net0/gateway <gw address>
set net0/netmask <netmask>
set net0/dns <DNS address>
ifopen net0
initrd http://<rhn satellite
address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/initrd.img
chain http://<rhn satellite
address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/vmlinuz ks=http://<rhn
satellite>/linux/rhel64/kickstart/ics-5.3.0.nolvm.ks


And while you're at it, try iPXE, the maintained successor to gPXE...
http://www.ipxe.org


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Steve <szemet1< at >yahoo.com.hk> wrote:

gPXE RHEL kickstart without DHCP

Steve — 2013-05-04T21:17:41

Hi guys,

I would like to automate the server build using gPXE without having DHCP server running on the network.
The following configuration I came up so far

#!gpxe
ifstat
set net0/ip <host IP>
set net0/gateway <gw address>
set net0/netmask <netmask>
set net0/dns <DNS address>
ifopen net0
kernel http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/vmlinuz
initrd http://<rhn satellite address>/images/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-64/initrd.img
boot

The server boots fine by downloading and running the kernel images, but unable to figure how to add the kickstart configuration file to this config.
I tried to add as a 'boot' parameter, but it didn't start to install the binaries.

e.g.

boot  ks=http://<rhn satellite>/linux/rhel64/kickstart/ics-5.3.0.nolvm.ks

Thank you in advance!
Regards,

Steve
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tftp options ignored.

John Hanks — 2013-05-03T22:07:10

Hi,

I'm trying to use a gPXE boot iso to work around a lack of PXE (on
iMacs, but this also happens in virtualbox VMs) and the tftp server
option is being ignored. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here as
non-gPXE PXE clients all seem to be working fine and get correct tftp
server addresses. The replies sent to the gPXE client include the
correct sname and we've tried with and without option 66 set to the IP
address of the tftp server. I can see from tcpdump that these are
correctly set in the dhcp replies. But the gPXE client still sets the
tftp server to 0.0.0.0 when it tries to download the bootfile. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

griznog

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failed to boot, same steps, same rom, different server, different reult

l17728 — 2013-03-27T14:42:20

hello, all
 I created windows 2008 VM and diskless vm to test  on diffrerent server and virtulazation platform, got different result
server1+VMWare esxi4, success(windows 2008 VM for DHCP, TFTP service, and diskless vm for testing sanboot)
server2+xenserver6.5, success(windows 2008 VM for DHCP, TFTP service, and diskless vm for testing sanboot)
Server3+windows 2008 + VMware workstation 9, failed((windows 2008 VM for DHCP, TFTP service, and diskless vm for testing sanboot)
 
Could you tell me What wrong is,  thank you!
 
Deck
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Etherboot and pxe boot

Sajesh Singh — 2013-03-13T19:33:32

I have a cluster of machines that I need to boot over pxe, but cannot due to the fact that they are running linuxbios and etherboot 5.1.7. Is there a way to boot an elf that is compatible with etherboot 5.1.7 that would then allow me to boot the pxe image? I know that etherboot starting with version 5.4 supported booting over pxe.

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Help, Diskless win7 boot form iscsi

l17728 — 2013-03-06T16:21:32

hello, dear all
  I  installed wn7 on iSCSI target successfully, but freezeing at startup splash screen after the windows first restarts, what can I do, 
Thanks a lot!


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Identifier strings with blank spaces

shedis — 2013-01-31T18:15:23

Hello,
i have been trying the boot systems using their smbios information. As a starting point i used "Network booting by mac address" (http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/bootbymacaddress) link.

I have a file: http://10.10.5.10/gpxe/boot.gpxe

which contains:
#!gpxe
chain http://10.10.5.10/gpxe/boot.txt?mac=${net0/mac}&manufact=${smbios/1.4.0:string}&serialno=${smbios/1.7.0:string}&model=${smbios/1.5.0:string}&req=bootme

When processing above chain command, request is sent to the web server with proper identifier substitution except for model=${smbios/1.5.0:string}. Since model information within smbios contains string with spaces between words e.g. "HP ElliteBook 8560p" the url that get fetched looks liks xxxxxxx&model=HP&. Also the parameters after "model" like stat=ok gets truncated.

Here's httpd log line showing the request:

/gpxe/boot.txt?mac=10%3A1f%3A74%3A4b%3A3c%3A81&manufact=Hewlett-Packard&serialno=4CZ1290JWX&model=HP HTTP/1.0" 200 179 "-" "gPXE/1.0.1+"

Any hints on how to overcome this.

gpxelinux.0 / gpxelinuxk.0 one chains windows other memtestConsolidate

Ingo Wolf — 2013-01-11T04:19:40

Hi group,

I have the problem that if I chain hd0 (Win XP) from gpxelinux.0
Windows XP doesn't find the network card and I have no network.
If I use gpxelinxk.0 instead (more debug output) WinXP find the network
card.

On the other side I can't chain memtest86 (hangs on start) 
when used gpxelinuxk.0 while it works with gpxelinux.0

It seems gpxelinuxk.0 resets something disturbing XP else 
While it is needed for memtest86.

It is possible to consolidate both programs having different options 
For chaining with reset (or what else) or without.

Besides : the Wiki seems to bee outdated things like exit seems 
Not to done but to load as kernel?

I also tried to load gpxelinux.0 from gpxelinuxk.0 to boot 
Memtest86 from gpxelinux.0 after but on the gpxelinux.0 
boot from gpxelinuxk.0 the computer resets and reboots 
completely.

Re: boot selecting card (via MAC?)

Shao Miller — 2013-01-02T02:41:37

Oh but I should also ask: Why are you using an .ISO wrapper, when all you
really need is gpxe.lkrn?  GRUB4DOS can load and execute a Linux x86
kernel-format binary directly, as my example suggests.  - Shao

-----Original Message-----
From: Shao Miller [mailto:sha0.miller< at >gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 21:40
To: gpxe< at >etherboot.org
Cc: 'Alessandro Dentella'
Subject: RE: [gPXE] boot selecting card (via MAC?)

Not that I know of.

There were patches for gpxe.lkrn to accept a command-line, but I don't
believe they were ever merged into gPXE.  If they had've been, then you
might do something like:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)
  find --set-root /boot/grub/gpxe.iso
  map /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff) || map --mem /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff)
  map --hook
  root (0xff)
  kernel /gpxe.lkrn some_command_line_maybe_with_mac_address

But then you'd still need some enhanced gPXE scripting capabilities to deal
with choosing the right network interface.

I believe that this can be accomplished with iPXE.

- Shao M

Re: boot selecting card (via MAC?)

Shao Miller — 2013-01-02T02:39:38

Not that I know of.

There were patches for gpxe.lkrn to accept a command-line, but I don't
believe they were ever merged into gPXE.  If they had've been, then you
might do something like:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)
  find --set-root /boot/grub/gpxe.iso
  map /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff) || map --mem /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff)
  map --hook
  root (0xff)
  kernel /gpxe.lkrn some_command_line_maybe_with_mac_address

But then you'd still need some enhanced gPXE scripting capabilities to deal
with choosing the right network interface.

I believe that this can be accomplished with iPXE.

- Shao Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: gpxe-bounces< at >etherboot.org [mailto:gpxe-bounces< at >etherboot.org] On
Behalf Of Alessandro Dentella
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 09:14
To: gpxe< at >etherboot.org
Subject: [gPXE] boot selecting card (via MAC?)


Hi,

I've just installed some Linux boxes with dual boot: Windows on the HD and
Linux LTSP via gPXE.

I used Grub4dows with an entry like this:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)

boot selecting card (via MAC?)

Alessandro Dentella — 2012-12-20T14:13:57

Hi,

I've just installed some Linux boxes with dual boot: Windows on the HD and
Linux LTSP via gPXE.

I used Grub4dows with an entry like this:

  title Linux (LTSP via gPXE)
  find --set-root /boot/grub/gpxe.iso
  map /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff) || map --mem /boot/grub/gpxe.iso (0xff)
  map --hook
  chainloader (0xff)

In some pc I added a second ethernet card since the integrated one was not
fast.

The boot process sometime does not work correctly as the wrong card is used
and it waits forever or enters a reboot loop. 

I could select the correct driver only but that's more complicated to manage 
as I have several different cards.

Is it possible to tell the gpxe.iso which MAC address is supposed to use?

thanks in advance
sandro
*:-)

Re: windows xp http boot

Shao Miller — 2012-11-27T18:37:07

Good day to you.

Windows has no idea about HTTP disks, so you'd need an HTTP disk driver.
WinVBlock already has development code for this, but it has not yet been
released.  This might be included in the next WinVBlock release.

In addition, an HTTP disk is read-only, so it is only useful with an .ISO,
such as a Windows XP PE .ISO.

Or, if you want, you can simply use HTTP as the protocol to _download_ any
Windows XP disk image, then use MEMDISK and WinVBlock.  That has a large RAM
requirement, but it allows for the virtual disk to be read & write.  I do
this all the time:

  kernel http://webserver/memdisk hdd
  initrd http://webserver/winxp.hdd
  boot

- Shao Miller

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From: gpxe-bounces< at >etherboot.org [mailto:gpxe-bounces< at >etherboot.org] On
Behalf Of luz kazar
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 13:27
To: gpxe< at >etherboot.org
Subject: [gPXE] windows xp http boot

Hi All,can anyone help me on the process of booting windows xp over http

windows xp http boot

luz kazar — 2012-11-27T18:26:57

Hi All,can anyone help me on the process of booting windows xp over http
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Autoboot without a DHCP-supplied boot path

Jochen Breuer — 2012-10-21T08:45:25

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the mailing list and to gPXE. So I'm sorry if this has been
asked before.

I'd like to boot a PC with a local DHCP server but with a PXE config
script that has been stored on a webserver. Exactly like it has been
described here: http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/autobootchainurl

Is this still the way to go or is this deprecated and can be performed
with scripting only?

Thanks!

Jochen

Re: 512MB Limitation of gPXE ?

Shao Miller — 2012-10-18T23:35:12

You're welcome.

I now understand why you call the disk image a VHD.  Thank you for
explaining this, as it helps me to understand why a lot of people call
sector-by-sector disk images VHDs.

WinVBlock works with MEMDISK, so you can skip the GRUB4DOS.

I've suggested MEMDISK because it seems simpler than the GRUB4DOS stuff you
are doing, but also because I am interested in knowing if there's any
difference in gpxelinux.0's behaviour in regards to refusing to load such a
large image into memory.

Please do report back, however, since gpxelinux.0 is { gPXE -> PXELINUX },
this seems more like a PXELINUX question than a gPXE question.  It might be
better to e-mail the Syslinux mailing-list, just in case PXELINUX is having
the problem.

- Shao Miller

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From: LinuxbyExamples [mailto:linuxbyexamples< at >gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 19:09
To: Shao Miller
Cc: <gpxe< at >etherboot.org>
Subject: Re: [gPXE] 512MB Limitation of gPXE ?

Hi Shao,

Thanks very much for your reply. It look lik

Re: 512MB Limitation of gPXE ?

LinuxbyExamples — 2012-10-18T23:08:51

Hi Shao,

Thanks very much for your reply. It look likes that I have miss-understand a lot thing :)

I call the image vhd because I did use VirtualBox to create the image (preallocated disk in vhd format). This is the term from virtualbox, I just call it as. 

I use grub4dos because in the image, winxp has been installed with a special driver called winVblock, and I am not sure if memdisk can work with this drivers ?!

The last thing, so there is no limitation about 512MB with gPXE ?! or I have to use memdisk to overcome this ?!

I will try memdisk and feedback soon. 

Brs.

On Oct 18, 2012, at 22:29, "Shao Miller" <sha0.miller< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Re: 512MB Limitation of gPXE ?

Shao Miller — 2012-10-18T15:29:37

Good day, guy.

Your config-file LABEL doesn't seem right.  The LABEL should reflect the
name of the item that you are booting.  You have already booted gpxelinux.0
and it is gpxelinux.0 that reads the config-file, so "LABEL gpxelinux"
doesn't make a lot of sense.  I'd suggest using "LABEL winxp", since that is
what you are booting from gpxelinux.0.

Back to your problem, is there any reason why you are not using MEMDISK,
instead of GRUB4DOS?  Please try it and see if there's any difference:

  LABEL winxp
    KERNEL http://192.168.100.254/memdisk
    INITRD http://192.168.100.254/MiniXP350.vhd
    APPEND raw

Also note that "Later, grub.exe will map the vhd image into memory" is
incorrect.  gpxelinux.0 is the program that maps the VHD into memory in your
current scenario.  GRUB4DOS establishes a very simple mapping of BIOS drive
0x80 to the already-mapped VHD image.

Also: Why are you calling your image a VHD?  If it can be booted by GRUB4DOS
in the way that you've described, the image is basically just a
s

512MB Limitation of gPXE ?

LinuxByExamples — 2012-10-18T13:03:39

Hi,

This is the first time I use this mailing list, so I am very sorry if I
have made any mistake.

Well, here is my case, I have followed this post :
http://www.linuxbyexamples.net/2012/08/boot-winxp-from-http-server.html

_ I can use gPXE to download two files : grub.exe and winxp.vhd image by
http. Later, grub.exe will map the vhd image into memory then successfully
load the windows xp. The config file look this :

LABEL gpxelinux
kernel http://192.168.100.254/grub.exe
initrd http://192.168.100.254/MiniXP350.vhd
APPEND --config-file="map (rd)+1 (hd0); map --hook; chainloader
(hd0,0)/ntldr"

This works very well.

_ But when the winxp.vhd image becomes bigger than 512MB ( I added some
more files and winxp modules into to the image), the loading step fire an
error tell me that the image can not be loaded ... I then try put the
bigger vhd image and grub.exe into usb disk and I can boot it well (without
using gPXE http loading). So, I guess the problem is in gPXE module, it
looks like that gPXE can not load