All,
I've played with setting up a PXE boot server, using dhcpd, apache and tftp.
(all on the same box) I've been through the archwiki PXE and Diskless_system
wiki pages (as well as a dozen other howtos) and I'm still confused about
whether I need to copy parts of the iso to /srv/tftp or whether I can just point
to the pxelinux.0 on the iso mounted at /mnt/archiso? E.g. the file now at
/mnt/archiso/arch/boot/syslinux/lpxelinux.0
Can I just symlink, e.g.
# ln -s /mnt/archiso/arch/boot/syslinux/lpxelinux.0 /srv/tftp/pxelinux.0
Or is there a reason I need to copy files to /srv/tftp and create
/srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg along with the various options? I would like it to be
able to boot EFI and legacy (both i686 and x86_64), which is currently handled
by the setup on the iso.
Which brings me to the final question about the "filename" to pass in
dhcpd.conf. The arch PXE wiki shows:
if option architecture = 00:07 {
filename "/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi";
} else {
filename "/grub/i386-pc/core.0";
}
which appears to be for a setup with the files copied under /srv/tftp/grub...
The current iso does not use that. Would I instead pass for example:
/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi
and then for legacy boot one of the vmlinuz specified by another option in
dhcpd.conf, or would simply passing a single filename of pxelinux.0 select the
right config under /mnt/archiso?
All of the examples/tutorials, seem to do it differently from each other. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
