PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

Alan McKay alan.mckay at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 21:06:45 UTC 2011


Hey folks,

First let me say I really like cobbler so far!  Just stumbled upon it today
and it was pretty easy to set up.

Except for this.

I already found this page :
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd

But it seems to be very specific in dealing with Linux Live CDs, not any
old live CD as the name suggests.

My scenario is that I have a live CD from Oracle/Sun for doing emergency
troubleshooting on Sunfire X2250 servers.  It is a DOS-based live CD.
 Oracle actually gives instructions here on how to make it PXE bootable
with a Red Hat PXE server, but clearly they are not talking about cobbler,
and the instructions are a bit incomplete at least for a guy like me with
no PXE experience whatsoever.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.x2250/820-4593-12/AppB.html#50540564_72480

I even went looking for a PXE server on RHEL 5.3 (via yum search) and could
not find much of anything so not sure what Red Hat PXE server they are
talking about.

Anyway, I could REALLY used some help in getting this live CD going with
Cobbler.

Anyone able to help me out?  I promise to add the instructions to the wiki
if you want.

Oh, if I take the ISO from Oracle/Sun and mount it loopback on my Linux
box, here is what the contents look like if that helps

[root at solexa-db SF2250]# ls -al !$
ls -al /mnt/tnt/
total 80261
dr-xr-xr-x  9 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root     4096 Dec  6 11:42 ..
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 autorun
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root      245 Feb 22  2011 autorun.inf
-r--r--r--  1 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 boot.catalog
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root 82147328 Feb 22  2011 boot.img
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root     3370 Feb 22  2011 Copyright
dr-xr-xr-x  5 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 drivers
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root     4050 Feb 22  2011 FR_Copyright
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 legal_notices
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root      168 Feb 22  2011 README.1ST
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root root     4587 Feb 22  2011 README.TXT
dr-xr-xr-x  2 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 recovery
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 remoteflash
dr-xr-xr-x  3 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 SNMP
dr-xr-xr-x  4 root root     2048 Feb 22  2011 utilities


thanks,
-Alan

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