Setting up pxe boot

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Bdeboer

• November 12, 2023 20:25

I saw one post a year ago that didn't reply and was necro bumped, but nothing happened to it.  How do I setup network booting with pxe?  do I add option 66 and 67 as in this post?  or do I need to go into the machine and mess with config files?

 

https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001290061-Adding-PXE-boot-options-to-a-Network?input_string=Setting%20up%20pxe%20boot

 

 

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  Michael Bierman

  • November 12, 2023 23:55

  I'm not familiar with this specifically, but Firewalla has added a bunch of DHCP Options which looks like what you need https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046703673-Firewalla-Feature-Guide-Network-Manager

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  John Barbieri

  • January 03, 2024 14:32

  Did you get this resolved Bdeboer? I just went through this myself, getting PXE to work on the firewalla. I think I used the post you linked above. I did not do the DHCP options in the gui, that didn't work for me.

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  Bdeboer

  • January 03, 2024 14:44

  Yes, it is resolved, but not quite fully setup the way I would like it.  I have to specify in the router if I want to use legacy boot options, or UEFI boot options, I have no choice to do it automatically.  Other than that, I can switch it, but I have to specify which one I want to boot.  Netboot.xyz really doesn't care what it boots and should allow for both to happen.

  I had to use both the GUI and the above post.  If I take either of them out, it doesn't work for my situation.

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  John Barbieri

  • January 03, 2024 14:51
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  Just for future reference, this is what my /home/pi/.router/config/dhcp/conf/pxe.conf file looks like. I think you could add to this to get dnsmasq to do both UEFI and Legacy. I haven't tested because most things I boot are UEFI. I use iPXE to boot the UEFI clients.

   

  dhcp-option=tag:br0,67,uefi/ipxe.efi
  dhcp-option-force=tag:br0,66,"192.168.10.1"
  dhcp-boot=tag:br0,uefi/ipxe.efi,tftp,192.168.10.1

   

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  Bdeboer

  • January 03, 2024 15:08

  I wasn't aware we could put the / where it was defining the efi file.  I will have to try that eventually.

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