http://etherboot.org/wiki/ 2010-03-11T10:53:57-05:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/ http://etherboot.org/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-03-10T10:45:25-05:00 Marty Connor http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/start?rev=1268235925&do=diff The Etherboot project has been participating in Google Summer of Code since 2006. Please note that participating organizations for 2010 have not been chosen yet . You are invited to browse for ideas and discuss them with us, keeping in mind that the Etherboot project must first be accepted into Summer of Code 2010. text/html 2010-02-16T11:24:08-05:00 Peter Scheie http://etherboot.org/wiki/commandline?rev=1266337448&do=diff Etherboot command-line Network Interfaces Etherboot names interfaces following the pattern “net#”. The special network interface alias “netX” refers to the last opened network interface. ifstat [interfaces...] Displays information and statistics about the specified interface. If no interface is specified, displays information about all detected interfaces. Information includes MAC address, PCI bus/slot/function identiers, and packet counts. text/html 2010-02-14T23:15:29-05:00 Marty Connor http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/ideas?rev=1266207329&do=diff This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome new suggestions. Some of these ideas are not in themselves complete projects; feel free to ask us how much work is likely to be involved, and how many ideas you might sensibly attempt as a Summer of Code project. The approximate difficulty level of each idea has been marked with one or more :-/ symbols; the more :-/, the more difficult the project is expected to be. text/html 2010-02-14T03:24:14-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/eeepc?rev=1266135854&do=diff Note: this howto is made in mind that you don't have access to a TFTP server on your LAN, that you are too lazy to setup one, or that your sysadmins forbids it * Compile undi.usb: cd gpxe.git/src; make bin/undi.usb Or if you are lazy download a binary version here. text/html 2010-02-13T15:34:08-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/faq/start?rev=1266093248&do=diff Below are links to pages that provide help with questions that have been asked by users of gPXE and Etherboot General * What does the Etherboot Project do? Creating images * How can I make gPXE and Etherboot images without compiling them myself? text/html 2010-02-13T15:19:57-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/faq/drivers?rev=1266092397&do=diff Driver FAQ How do I check if a network card is supported? When a PCI network card is detected, its PCI ID is used to identify it and choose an appropriate driver. Each network card driver has a list of PCI IDs it supports. The format of a PCI ID is VVVV:DDDD, where the VVVV field is called the Vendor ID and the DDDD field is called the Device ID. text/html 2010-02-13T12:13:29-05:00 Joshua Oreman http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/ideas?rev=1266081209&do=diff This is an archived version of the Ideas page for 2009. You may want to look at our 2010 Ideas. This list is not exhaustive, and we welcome new suggestions. Some of these ideas are not in themselves complete projects; feel free to ask us how much work is likely to be involved, and how many ideas you might sensibly attempt as a Summer of Code project. The approximate difficulty level of each idea has been marked with one or more :-/ symbols; the more :-/, the more difficult the project is e… text/html 2010-02-12T15:04:47-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/start?rev=1266005087&do=diff [A network card] gPXE is an open source (GPL) network bootloader. It provides a direct replacement for proprietary PXE ROMs, with many extra features such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI, etc. Take a look at our Screenshots page and the HowTo Guides for some ideas of what we can do, and grab the code from our Download page. text/html 2010-02-11T15:53:11-05:00 Nick http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/sanboot-zfs?rev=1265921591&do=diff The volume management functions of ZFS, combined with the COMSTAR (STMF) system in Opensolaris create a very powerful storage platform for boot-from-SAN functionality. This document endeavors to describe that configuration. The following are the major components of this system: text/html 2010-02-10T15:18:18-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/old_news?rev=1265833098&do=diff [LinuxWorld logo] LinuxWorld Expo 2008, San Francisco The Etherboot project will be exhibiting once again at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco from August 5-7. We will also be presenting a tutorial on the morning of Monday August 4th, on the topic of “Virtualization of the Boot Process Using Open Source Software”. text/html 2010-02-08T04:47:44-05:00 Edward King http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/bootbymacaddress?rev=1265622464&do=diff Author: Edward King The environment A collection of headless, diskless servers, utilising a range of operating system images. A web-based control system enables a system administrator to pick from a range of operating system images for use by the specific machine, thereby adding it to the “pool” of available servers / workstations under his control. text/html 2010-02-08T04:45:02-05:00 Edward King http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes?rev=1265622302&do=diff This section contains examples of specific tasks that people have accomplished using gPXE and related software. You may find some of these examples helpful. * iSCSI Enterprise Target on Fedora 8 - steps to install the iSCSI Enterprise Target (<http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net>) on Fedora 8 text/html 2010-02-01T13:30:26-05:00 Marty Connor http://etherboot.org/wiki/mailinglists?rev=1265049026&do=diff Current Etherboot Project mailing lists can be found here: <http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo> ---------- In addition we have some legacy mailing lists: Etherboot-Discuss is for general discussion of Etherboot and associated network booting topics. This list will be obsolete soon, so please join the gPXE mailing list instead! text/html 2010-01-31T21:01:35-05:00 Owen Mann http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining?rev=1264989695&do=diff If you have a large number of machines which already have a legacy PXE implementation (e.g. network cards containing an Intel PXE ROM), then you may want to avoid having to reflash each machine's network card. You can achieve this by placing gPXE on your TFTP server. The PXE-capable machines will download gPXE via TFTP, and instantly become gPXE-capable machines. text/html 2010-01-31T19:23:39-05:00 Owen Mann http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/gentoo_iscsi?rev=1264983819&do=diff Scope This How-To is intended for anyone who wants to install Gentoo Linux on an iSCSI target. What is covered: * Connecting to the iSCSI target * Installing a generic base system * Installing the kernel * Installing the bootloader What is not covered: * Understanding and configuring a network environment text/html 2010-01-31T14:13:02-05:00 Marty Connor http://etherboot.org/wiki/httpboot?rev=1264965182&do=diff Booting from HTTP with gPXE is as simple as replacing the DHCP filename field with an http:// URL. For example, if you currently have /etc/dhcpd.conf containing next-server my.tftp.server; filename "/pxe.0"; then you can just copy pxe.0 to your web server and edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to contain text/html 2010-01-23T12:12:22-05:00 Marty Connor http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot?rev=1264266742&do=diff [Windows Server 2003] gPXE allows you to boot an operating system directly from a Storage Area Network, using a protocol such as iSCSI or AoE. In this setup, you do not need a TFTP server or any other boot-time-only server. The operating system is loaded directly from the network-attached disk. text/html 2010-01-23T11:28:24-05:00 Bart Van Kerkhove http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/iscsi_install?rev=1264264104&do=diff [Start of Fedora installation] Installing directly to an iSCSI target requires support from the operating system's installation program, in addition to requiring iSCSI boot support. Select the operating system that you wish to install to an iSCSI target: text/html 2010-01-20T07:05:34-05:00 Bart Van Kerkhove http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/ubuntu_iscsi?rev=1263989134&do=diff (this howto is based on the Debian Etch iSCSI howto with some major changes) Introduction This howto shows how to make an existing installation of a recent *buntu (ubuntu, kubuntu, edubuntu, xubuntu and so on) bootable over the network using iSCSI. text/html 2010-01-15T16:00:14-05:00 Stefan Hajnoczi http://etherboot.org/wiki/staging?rev=1263589214&do=diff [A boot ROM] The staging tree is used to hold branches waiting for potential merging into the main gPXE tree. It provides a central location for collecting patches submitted via the mailing list, IRC, and other methods. Most branches in the staging tree hold individual features, such as a new driver, and are referred to as “feature branches”. text/html 2010-01-12T19:06:11-05:00 Kyle Kienapfel http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos?rev=1263341171&do=diff This section contains tutorials that will guide you through performing a variety of network booting tasks for the first time. You'll need to download and build gPXE before trying most of them. How to deploy gPXE There are three typical deployment scenarios for gPXE. text/html 2010-01-12T18:25:40-05:00 Kyle Kienapfel http://etherboot.org/wiki/proxydhcp?rev=1263338740&do=diff Simply put proxydhcp is using a separate dhcp from the regular dhcp server to hand out boot parameters. An existing dhcp server isn't modified. Very handy for setting up a PXE environment without access to the existing dhcp infrastructure. Ubuntu community docs mention that dnsmasq 2.48 or newer supports being a proxydhcp server and that gpxe newer than may 2009 is also needed (gPXE version 0.9.8?). Those docs also mention that proprietary bootroms can also support proxydhcp, so chainloaders are… text/html 2010-01-11T01:38:34-05:00 Shao Miller http://etherboot.org/wiki/doc?rev=1263191914&do=diff Source Code Documentation Many parts of the gPXE code-base include commenting for use with the Doxygen system. To build this documentation for browsing, go into gPXE src/ directory and do make doc You will then have the documentation available in your gpxe/src/bin/doc/ directory. text/html 2010-01-10T11:27:40-05:00 Peter Scheie http://etherboot.org/wiki/talks?rev=1263140860&do=diff Members of the Etherboot Project have made regular appearances at various conferences and trade shows, given talks, and submitted papers. This page links to some of those events and papers. They provide an overview of our project and our software. text/html 2010-01-10T04:50:24-05:00 Justin Hochstetler http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/vbox?rev=1263117024&do=diff VirtualBox LAN boot ROM You can use gPXE as the LAN boot ROM in VirtualBox. The boot ROM can be set per-VM or globally for all VMs. Using gPXE instead of the default LAN boot ROM, VMs can be booted over HTTP, iSCSI, AoE, and gPXE's other advanced features are available. text/html 2010-01-08T16:46:31-05:00 Matt Domsch http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/fedora_iscsi_install?rev=1262987191&do=diff Installing Fedora to an iSCSI target Fedora 12 and newer Fedora 12 has a graphical installer which can attach to an iSCSI target and use it directly. On the storage configuration screen, choose the 'Advanced configuration' option, choose to use an iSCSI target, and fill out the details requested. The installer will then use that LUN as you see fit. text/html 2010-01-07T14:55:53-05:00 Justin Hochstetler http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/qemu?rev=1262894153&do=diff QEMU option ROM Building the ROM image Check which network adapter is configured for the VM. Here are the adapters supported by QEMU 0.11.0 [from a QEMU on Fedora 12 (i686) installation]: QEMU NIC 'model' PCI Vendor ID PCI Device ID Mfr Name Device Name Notes rtl8139 10ECh 8139h Realtek RTL8139C+ Fast Ethernet Adapter Default in QEMU v0.11.0 ne2k_pci 10ECh 8029h… text/html 2009-12-29T01:55:47-05:00 Michael Bruckmeier http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/win2k8_iscsi_install?rev=1262069747&do=diff To install Windows Server 2008 to an iSCSI target, you must first configure your system to attempt to boot via iSCSI, and fall back to booting from DVD-ROM if the iSCSI boot fails. The exact procedure for doing this will vary depending on your computer's BIOS. text/html 2009-12-27T09:18:09-05:00 Pravin Shinde http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/pravin/notes/start?rev=1261923489&do=diff Useful to find the dependency of given executable on other shared libraries. ldd Useful information AndyTim: By the way, if you ever get the ^M problem again. Try following it by a ^J Links to watch-out * HTTP-FUSE-KNOPPIX someone has done if before also. * <http://paste.etherboot.org/?page=view&id=1239849078> script to create automatic gpxe bootable USB text/html 2009-12-26T09:13:57-05:00 Pravin Shinde http://etherboot.org/wiki/wiki/ubuntu910?rev=1261836837&do=diff This page will document progress and problems faced in supporting Ubuntu 9.10 in BKO. * Ubuntu is booting over network using pxe, but its not able to mount the iso and use it. * Ubuntu is booting as long as URL to ISO is containing IP instead of URL, its same old dns resolv problem. * Ubuntu with httpfs is working :-) * I am using ugly hack to populate /etc/resolv.conf file with public DNS entries. * So it may not work in place where public DNS queries are not allowed. text/html 2009-12-22T18:26:22-05:00 Thomas Ronner http://etherboot.org/wiki/appnotes/port_winnt_sanboot?rev=1261524382&do=diff Introduction Experience the power of Free and Open-Source Software such as gPXE and the communities that develop and support such. If you can appreciate what this article accomplishes, perhaps you'd be inclined to get in the FOSS spirit and recognize the potential that can be realized with gPXE + Linux. text/html 2009-12-22T11:38:24-05:00 Kristof Van Doorsselaere http://etherboot.org/wiki/sanboot/opensolaris_iscsi_install?rev=1261499904&do=diff Opensolaris direct install iscsi * Documentation can be found here: <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo/Configuring+iSCSI+Boot+for+x86+Systems> Prerequisites * A Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) Build 104 or later DVD How to Install * Create an empty disk and expose over iSCSI