PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD

Michael DeHaan michael.dehaan at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 22:17:52 UTC 2011


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-- Michael


On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Mann, Owen wrote:

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> PXE is just DHCP & TFTP set up a certain way, as far as the server side. The PXE bootloader and MEMDISK are part of the SYSLINUX package. Create an image object in Cobbler, select the "memdisk" image type, and enter the full path of the "suppl_tau/boot.img" file in the "file" box.
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> From: cobbler-bounces at lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-bounces at lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Alan McKay
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 4:07 PM
> To: cobbler at lists.fedorahosted.org (mailto:cobbler at lists.fedorahosted.org)
> Subject: PXE boot a (DOS) Live CD
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> Hey folks,
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> First let me say I really like cobbler so far!  Just stumbled upon it today and it was pretty easy to set up.
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> I already found this page :
> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd
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> But it seems to be very specific in dealing with Linux Live CDs, not any old live CD as the name suggests.    
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> 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.
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> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19121-01/sf.x2250/820-4593-12/AppB.html#50540564_72480
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> 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.
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> Anyway, I could REALLY used some help in getting this live CD going with Cobbler.
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> Anyone able to help me out?  I promise to add the instructions to the wiki if you want.
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> 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
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> [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
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