hi all,

want to make a PXE boot server not just for WDS i want to make it so the user has the option when they hit F12 to select what boot server they want ie windows linux or mac, because atm when they hit F12 it just goes to the WDS server as i have made the scope options for the DHCP to point to that boot server

am i making any sense?

many thanks

rob

i have found a good walkthrough to follow -

https://thommck.wordpress.com/2011/0...-network-boot/

quick question i am about to deploy it on the wds server but before i fudge it up i would like to revert back incase, i am about to do this step -
"In Server 2008 R2 you have to use the wdsutil command line to set the the default boot program with these commands"

but what about if i want to go back to my normal boot option instead of using the pxelinux one?

"but what about if i want to go back to my normal boot option instead of using the pxelinux one"

What is your normal boot option? You mean wds? I'd assume you simply undo the syslinux pxe stuff.


While you are looking don't forget to look at gpxe/ipxe too if you have a more complex lan or wan.

success, done it

i had to add more files to the \boot\x64 for it to work as it keeped on asking for one more files to be added but eventually it booted into pxelinux

i downloaded the latest version of pxelinux (6.03) and in the folder its all in the bios sub folder

the files i added were -

chain.c32

ldlinux.c32

libcom32.c32

libutil.c32

pxelinux.0 but renamed it to pxelinux.com

vesamenu.c32

but another quick question, im trying to add a centos image to my pxeboot menu, what files do i add from my centos iso to do this

EDIT - figured it out, the files you need to copy on the iso are in the directory -
\images\pxeboot\

many thanks

rob

ok so i have come this far but im stuck on the last hurdle

i press F12

i select from the boot menu centos 6.7 net install

it then loads

i select NFS directory for my installation media

i type in the details of the nfs server share

NFS server name: 192.168.1.91

Centos directory: /media/RT0/IT/rob/centos6.7/images/install.img - what i have done was i unzipped the iso image and extracted it to the folder centos6.7

NFS mount options (optional):

now i get to the centos installation and press continue to everything

i then get an error when it writes to my HD

unable to read package metadata. this may be due to a missing repodata directory. please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated

Are you saying you get to the install a number of pages down where it gets to wanting to load some disk partition scheme?

I think there is a way to access terminal from that menu to run some tests. Not sure if your installer is somehow thinking the ramdisk this is running from is the install location. Other if the image you have can't mount the drive for some reason.

success,

on the nfs share i copied the centos 6.7 ISO in the share and also i extracted/copied the /images/install.img from the iso and put it also in the share, so it looks like this

so in the nfs mount point i put -

/media/RT0/IT/rob/centos6.7/install.img

once it knows that i imagine it can see the iso file and continue the installation as it has the directory tree of the installation (the iso file)

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