Differences between current version and revision by previous author of PXE.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Revision, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Friday, July 7, 2006 11:58:50 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, April 1, 2004 8:31:54 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
-[PXE
] is a network-boot protocol. It stands
for Pre
-boot eXecution Environment. It is esentially the same as Etherboot.
-Most modern adapters support PXE now, although they generally still need to have the PXE [BIOS] enabled for this to work
.
+An
[Acronym
] for __P__re
-boot E__x__ecution __E__nvironment
.
-Some NICs (chipsets actually) that
support [PXE] Booting:
-* Realtek 8139
-* Intel Pro 100 family
-* Lots of 3Com cards
+A way of booting computers over the network, much the same as Etherboot. Most modern adapters
support [PXE] now, although they generally still need to have the PXE [BIOS] enabled for this to work.
-If you have a PXE bootable card, and a compliant motherboard BIOS, it will boot off PXE just fine. You can see it trying to do this as the machine boots - it might prompt to boot off the
NIC, or it might say something about
[DHCP
], or so on.
+Some [
NIC] chipsets that support
[PXE
]:
-If for some reason your machine wont boot via PXE (I found in my dual ppro motherboard that if I had a disk enabled it wouldn't let me boot off the
[NIC
] - I had to disable the drive. As I was trying to use PXE to bootstrap a network install, that didn't help me much), you can perhaps use Microsofts Remote Install Services disk. This is a bootdisk which has the bootcode for PXE for a range
of disks on it. More information is
[here|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/server/sag_RIS_Boot_Floppy.asp
]
+* RealTek 8139
+*
[Intel
] Pro 100 family
+* Lots
of [3Com
] cards
-Here is an (untested) image of
a PXE-on-disk bootdisk. http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/
PXE/pxebootdisk
.img.
- dd if=./pxebootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0
-will write
it to a floppy disk for you
+If you have
a [
PXE]
-bootable card, and a compliant motherboard [BIOS], it will boot off [
PXE] just fine
. You can see
it trying
to do this as the machine boots – it might prompt to boot off the [NIC], or it might say something about [DHCP], or so on.
-The next step
, of course, is to making your
PXE booting machine do something
... [PXELinux
], which is part of SysLinux, will help you out here
. PXES
, mentioned on the DisklessWorkstationNotes page also makes use
of PXE
+If for some reason your machine won't boot via [PXE]
, you can try this [(untested) image
of a
PXE-on-disk bootdisk | http://www
.wlug
.org
.nz/archive/PXE/pxebootdisk.img
]. To create a disk with it
, issue <tt>dd if=pxebootdisk.img
of=/dev/fd0</tt>.
-Information on how
to PXE boot a Soekris board can be found at
[SoekrisPXEBoot
]
+The next step, of course, is
to making your [
PXE]-booting machine do something… PXELINUX, which is part of SysLinux, will help you out here. PXES (mentioned on the DisklessWorkstationNotes page) also makes use of
[PXE
].
+
+----
+Part of CategoryNetworking
