PXE boot problem.
by mford20220 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5B2A8)
Hi,
I am having a problem during the last stage of my PXE boot process. I am using docker containers for my dhcpd, tftp, and httpd servers. I have all of my config/compose files setup and am using the PXELinux(syslinux) bootloader.
The goal is to boot an ELF64 image onto an intel processor based single board computer.
I have successfully gotten to the point where on bootup the pxelinux bootloader is downloaded and have my pxelinux.cfg file pointing to the ELF64 image on my httpd server. When I select the option to boot this image, I am running into problems.
I am attempting to use the the mboot.c32 module to boot this ELF64 multiboot compatible image.
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index...itle=Mboot.c32
I am not sure where I am going wrong using this module (not a terrible amount of documentation). Below is my menu entry using the mboot.c32 module.
Code:LABEL ghs
MENU LABEL GHS image via HTTP
KERNEL mboot.c32
APPEND http://158.147.2.58:8080/PATH_TO_IMAGE/example_appmboot is passed in as the kernel (like the documentation shows) and I APPEND my image file path (on the httpd server).
When I select this option it brings up a "boot: e" prompt. If I hit enter, it just redraws the PXE menu. If I type anything in and hit enter it says "....failed: No such file or directory".
This command line is confusing me as I thought the mboot and APPEND should have taken care of the booting. I am assuming something is going wrong (maybe the way I am using mboot in my menu.cfg) but there is not much debugging info to be had. Has anyone used the mboot module before, or know what the command line prompt I am getting is? I am somewhat new to all this stuff.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thank you
I am having a problem during the last stage of my PXE boot process. I am using docker containers for my dhcpd, tftp, and httpd servers. I have all of my config/compose files setup and am using the PXELinux(syslinux) bootloader.
The goal is to boot an ELF64 image onto an intel processor based single board computer.
I have successfully gotten to the point where on bootup the pxelinux bootloader is downloaded and have my pxelinux.cfg file pointing to the ELF64 image on my httpd server. When I select the option to boot this image, I am running into problems.
I am attempting to use the the mboot.c32 module to boot this ELF64 multiboot compatible image.
https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index...itle=Mboot.c32
I am not sure where I am going wrong using this module (not a terrible amount of documentation). Below is my menu entry using the mboot.c32 module.
Code:LABEL ghs
MENU LABEL GHS image via HTTP
KERNEL mboot.c32
APPEND http://158.147.2.58:8080/PATH_TO_IMAGE/example_appmboot is passed in as the kernel (like the documentation shows) and I APPEND my image file path (on the httpd server).
When I select this option it brings up a "boot: e" prompt. If I hit enter, it just redraws the PXE menu. If I type anything in and hit enter it says "....failed: No such file or directory".
This command line is confusing me as I thought the mboot and APPEND should have taken care of the booting. I am assuming something is going wrong (maybe the way I am using mboot in my menu.cfg) but there is not much debugging info to be had. Has anyone used the mboot module before, or know what the command line prompt I am getting is? I am somewhat new to all this stuff.
Any thoughts are appreciated!
Thank you