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  Thread: How to pass options to the booted system via PXECONFIG script
Post: RE: How to pass options to the booted system via P...

Thanks for the response! i dont want to get in to shell. Let me reiterate my situation: 1. I have a start up script"xyz.sh" that loads automatically when it PXE boots- - for this i have placed my s...
knatesan General 6 21,157 2013-11-13, 01:35
  Thread: How to pass options to the booted system via PXECONFIG script
Post: RE: How to pass options to the booted system via P...

Thanks for the response.. Here is what i wanted to achieve.. i want to Pass "test.txt" file to the pxebooted linux image. Below is what i tried.. "kernel nfs://192.168.13.5/var/www/nfsshare/casper/v...
knatesan General 6 21,157 2013-11-07, 20:35
  Thread: How to pass options to the booted system via PXECONFIG script
Post: RE: How to pass options to the booted system via P...

Is it possible to pass some argument?
knatesan General 6 21,157 2013-11-01, 22:19
  Thread: How to pass options to the booted system via PXECONFIG script
Post: How to pass options to the booted system via PXECO...

I have a script that automatically runs after system has been pxebooted. that script needs some information like IP address and path to some file. I would like to specify in my PXEconfig file. Does an...
knatesan General 6 21,157 2013-11-01, 20:16
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

thanks robin!. I have disabled all nics in my server.. i have only enabled port 4 [forPXE] and port 1 for OS. Sometimes timeout is expiring and going to kernel panic mode.. i dont know where to get te...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-23, 19:26
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: <<RESOLVED>>RE: Any Recommendation on creating a c...

**** IT WORKED ******* Thanks foryour contiguous response.highly appreciate your contribution.. OK. below is what i did: looks like my iPXE setup doesnt support NFS. # install NFS support in iPXE 1. ...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-22, 19:09
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

I made some progress today .. after i add netboot options like below its found the mnt point. but now its failing in the network confi.. below is my bootloader.cfg: set root-path /tftpboot/ipxe/nf...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-22, 04:31
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

thanks for the detailed response Robin!.. 1. I mounted the custom iso[created using relinux] and extracted all the files and copied to my Http server under 192.168.13.5/mount/ 2. chmod +x mount/ In P...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-21, 22:39
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

does any one comeacross this issue? any workaround.. Looking forward to take up any suggestions.. open for new directions also.
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-18, 18:16
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

Will that work only if i netboot the custom iso file by copying all the OS files in NFS share? Is that the only way ? I dont want to have a NFS share and netboot the custom iso file? Is there any wo...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-16, 23:46
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

Any thoughts ? any directions would be of really helpfull.. i am in PST timing.. desperately waiting for next steps/ Thanks in advance!
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-16, 06:51
  Thread: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex i want to boot to hiren.iso
Post: RE: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex ...

Reply for Post#2 : RE: "If you start a windows or linux kernel it will lose access to the CDROM (that is completely normal behavior)" hi Robin, Can you please let me know what is the work around if l ...
knatesan General 5 28,462 2013-10-16, 05:22
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: RE: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso fr...

Do i need to setup a NFS share to boot the custom iso ? Do i need to extract the custom.iso and put in the http or tftp folder? Do i need to comment out the CDROM options somewhere before i make cust...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-15, 22:31
  Thread: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from installed OS
Post: Any Recommendation on creating a custom iso from i...

I wanted to create a custom image from the installed Linux machine. i am fine with any distributions. i tried relinux to create a custom image from installed linux OS.. but if i ipXEboot to this iso i...
knatesan General 13 37,528 2013-10-14, 23:59
  Thread: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex i want to boot to hiren.iso
Post: RE: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex ...

Thanks for the response.. My actual Intention is to boot to Custom .iso which has my tools running as a startup script.. To create a custom.iso i followed below steps: 1. Installed Ubuntu12.04 and ins...
knatesan General 5 28,462 2013-10-14, 22:31
  Thread: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex i want to boot to hiren.iso
Post: how do i boot the iso file using iPXE? for ex i wa...

I have installed iPXE in UBuntu12.04 [downloaded ipxe-7405685.tar.gz] below is my bootloader.cfg file: imgfree imgfetch http://192.168.15.5/download/hiren.iso imgstat If i boot with above settings...
knatesan General 5 28,462 2013-10-11, 00:08