Showing posts with label ipxe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ipxe. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

iPXE boot from tftpd

Why do they keep making life difficult ?

Upgraded to the latest Prox v5 and went to do a test tftp boot. Always worked before. Suddenly faced with a continuously looping iPXE BIOS thingy.

And rubbish documentation on the subject.

All I wanted was a simple 'boot from existing tftpd setup'. Easy. Or not.

So, the answer is easy, ish.

http://ipxe.org/cmd/chain

Boot, press Control + B and then type

chain tftp://10.1.2.3/pxelinux.0

No idea how to make this default on Proxmox though.

What is inexcusable is that it can't figure this out by itself and means I have to go wasting time hunting about for stuff.

Grrrrrrrr. Bloody smartarse developers.