[Voyage-linux] Different PXE Server - SUCCESS!!!

[John Schultz]

I have successfully gotten voyage-linux live ISO to boot from a Windows SBS
2003 PXE environment and its a ROYAL pain in the behind.

1. Create a NFS share on a linux (in my case, this was a debain 0.6.0a
server)
2. Configure /etc/exports with the following information:
   {NFS/folder/to/Share} *(rw,async,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
3. Copy the contents of the live CD to this folder
4. Copy the {CD}/live/vmlinuz1 to your tftp folder
   {TFTP Server}/linux/voyage/0.7.5/vmlinuz1
5. Copy the {CD}/live/initrd1.img to your tftp folder
   {TFTP Server}/linux/voyage/0.7.5/initrd1.img
6. Configure your default config file with the following information:
   {This by far is an example, configure this to suit your needs}

> DEFAULT      vesamenu.c32
> PROMPT       0
> NOESCAPE     0
> ALLOWOPTIONS 0
> TIMEOUT 30
> MENU WIDTH 40
> MENU MARGIN 0
> MENU ROWS 12
> MENU TIMEOUTROW 14
> MENU HSHIFT 5
> MENU VSHIFT 2
> MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44       #00000000 #00000000 none
> MENU COLOR TABMSG 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
> MENU COLOR TITLE 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
> MENU COLOR SEL   30;47       #40000000 #20ffffff
> MENU BACKGROUND DeploymentBackground.png
>
> MENU TITLE PXE Boot menu
> MENU WIDTH 80
> MENU MARGIN 18
> MENU ROWS 25
>
> LABEL    voyage075
> MENU    DEFAULT
> MENU    LABEL Voyage Linux 0.7.5
> KERNEL    linux/voyage/0.7.5/vmlinuz1 root=LABEL=ROOT_FS
> INITRD    linux/voyage/0.7.5/initrd1.img
> APPEND    boot=live netboot=nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.17:/export/voyage-one-current
> username=root
>

That should do it.

Any questions, let me know.

Thanks,
John


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:13, John Schultz <jschultz0614 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OK,.. I was able to get it to appear to connect to the NFS share and
> connect to the sysrcd.dat file, however, I get a md5sum checksum is invalid
> on the root filesystem image error.
>
> Just to be sure, I downloaded the iso and extracted the dat file a second
> time.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 09:30, Gustin Johnson <gustin at meganerd.ca> wrote:
>
>> My PXE config looks like this;
>>
>> LABEL System Rescue CD "Live Image"
>>        LINUX systemrescue/rescuecd
>>        INITRD systemrescue/initram.igz
>>        APPEND scandelay=1 docache
>> netboot=nfs://192.168.1.10:/images/systemrescue setkmap=us toram
>>        TEXT
>>        SystemRescueCD network boot image (recovery)
>>        ENDTEXT
>>
>> The 192.168.1.10 is also the PXE server, but it could be any machine.
>> You can also ignore the TEXT/ENDTEXT bit, it is just for the onscreen
>> menu (we have a customized FOG install that this is part of).
>>
>> The Linux and INITRD options are paths that exist under the root of
>> the TFTP server.
>> The relevant line from the /etc/exports file:
>>
>> /images/systemrescue
>>
>> *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure,no_subtree_check)
>>
>>
>
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