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    How to: Modify the PXE boot menu to allow the booting of .iso files

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      ssx4life
      last edited by

      Not to leave people hanging or trying to pick up the pieces, but I have been absent from this project and many other items recently due to family issues, so I apologize for not keeping up with requests or being active on supporting this documentation at this time.

      In regards to re-uploading the tftpboot folder perhaps another member can zip and upload one for you. I’m sorry I just don’t have time and or resources to dedicate to this currently.

      If things change you’ll be the first to know. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions and I’ll try to get back to ya’ll when I have time.

      Thanks in advance >_<

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        chibiko
        last edited by

        Hi ssx4life. Can you take a look at my issue? [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-precision-t5600-not-enough-memory-to-load-specified-image.3789/’]I have setup exactly as your guide. http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-precision-t5600-not-enough-memory-to-load-specified-image.3789/[/URL] What version of syslinux do you think I should try? Should I go all the way back to version 2 or 3?

        Bjorn, I’ve also tried your suggestion in using [B]gpxelinux.0 [/B]I changed this on my dhcp scope and copied gpxelinux.0 from the syslinux folder into my /tftpboot. However when I pxe boot up, I got an error saying [B]vesamenu.c32 not a com32r image. [/B]I can hit tab and then load my iso but this runs out of memory even quicker.

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          brian_
          last edited by

          I modified my default to the correct menu and to allow booting of .iso images (windows 7)

          but when i select the option in the pxe menu it just quits the pxe boot and restarts the machine.

          any help would be nice, but i’ll be testing more tomorrow.

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            brian_
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            [quote=“brian_, post: 9719, member: 2729”]I modified my default to the correct menu and to allow booting of .iso images (windows 7)

            but when i select the option in the pxe menu it just quits the pxe boot and restarts the machine.

            any help would be nice, but i’ll be testing more tomorrow.[/quote]

            fixed. had a capital letter in the filename. lawl

            i’m also trying to boot to a 3.1 gig image to a machine that has 4 gigs of ram but it always errors out. any suggestions?

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              chad-bisd Moderator
              last edited by

              I was able to add SeaTools for DOS to my list of utilities available via PXE boot. No more searching around for CD’s.

              I copied the iso to /tftpboot and renamed it all lower case to make it easier. I added the following code to the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file just befor the PROMPT 0 at the bottom.

              [CODE]
              LABEL fog.seatools

                  kernel memdisk
                  append iso initrd=seatoolsdos223all.iso raw
                  MENU LABEL SeaTools for DOS 2.23
                  TEXT HELP
                  Load SeaTools for DOS, a DOS based disk checking utility to scan for hardware errors with common hard drives.
                  ENDTEXT
              

              [/CODE]


              If you would like to make a donation to the Fog project, please do so [U][COLOR=#0000ff][URL='http://sourceforge.net/dona…

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                Kyle Rice
                last edited by

                Hello I’m trying to add spinrite to the PXE boot, so i followed your video, and now i get the Spinrite label in the boot menu but it won’t boot to it, it says "could not find ramdisk image : fog/spinrite/spinrite.iso

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                  Kyle Rice
                  last edited by

                  [quote=“Kyle Rice, post: 12437, member: 4275”]Hello I’m trying to add spinrite to the PXE boot, so i followed your video, and now i get the Spinrite label in the boot menu but it won’t boot to it, it says "could not find ramdisk image : fog/spinrite/spinrite.iso[/quote]

                  UPDATE : I just fixed it it was named spinrite.ISO not spinrite.iso.

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                    Kyle Rice
                    last edited by

                    Thanks OP (SSX4Life) for the very helpful video!!! this will help lots, imagine the possibilities!!!

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                    • x23piracyX
                      x23piracy
                      last edited by

                      Hi,

                      iam using a very extended default pxe file, if someone is interested i will post i completely.
                      I used PXE also before FOG to boot serveral ISO’s and tool’s

                      If you enter my PXE Menu the first thing is a prompt where you will have to enter an administration password to go on, else a timer 5 seconds is starting and starting again and will finally boot the default hdd.

                      If you enter the psw correctly the menu presents all my entry’s and subentrys 😉

                      Greetz X23

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                      • Scott BS
                        Scott B
                        last edited by

                        Great thread, helped me out a lot!

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                          darkxeno
                          last edited by

                          I got it on their for Hirens but now it asks for a password and i cant get it to load!!! how can i bypass the password

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                            darkxeno
                            last edited by

                            SO i got it to bypass the email now i get get lines and lines of …

                            how can i get this to just load!!!

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                            • Tom ElliottT
                              Tom Elliott
                              last edited by

                              That is it loading. It loads for a while.

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                                Gilou
                                last edited by

                                The thing about booting an ISO, is that you have to transfer the size of the ISO over the wire using tftp… Which can take long. The usual approach to live booting on PXE is to send a smaller image, then have the root mounted off NFS, so that it doesn’t have to wait until everything is loaded to boot.

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                                  Haz
                                  last edited by

                                  Old thread I know but hoping someone can help me here.

                                  I have edited the PXE boot menu before a few times (all thanks to this guide - thanks a lot ssx ;)) and never had a problem, however on this latest fog server I have set up I cannot seem to get it to work. I can edit the default file fine to display the menu options and also dropped the ISO files into the correct directory, but when ever I select one of them from the menu it only gets so far and then just says “loading boot sector… booting…”. It would appear that fog has found the iso and started to load it, but a problem lies somewhere else maybe? I have tried a few different memdisk versions, and this still happens on various ISOs such as Ultimate boot CD, Dell Diags, WinPE tools etc…

                                  Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated 🙂

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                                    digitalworkshed
                                    last edited by

                                    Great tutorial video! Really helped me out! Thanks a lot!

                                    [URL='http://www.digitalworkshed.com/']iPhone App Developer UK[/URL]

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                                      qUoTuM
                                      last edited by

                                      Is there any way i can do this in FOG 1.0.0?
                                      I looked it up but its kind of different and i cant figure out how to do it.

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                                      • Tom ElliottT
                                        Tom Elliott
                                        last edited by

                                        [quote=“qUoTuM, post: 26870, member: 24126”]Is there any way i can do this in FOG 1.0.0?
                                        I looked it up but its kind of different and i cant figure out how to do it.[/quote]

                                        I direct you to a couple of other posts wanting, basically, the same things:
                                        [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/switching-to-gpxelinux.3995/[/url]
                                        [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-0-33b-edit-pxe-menu.10403/[/url]

                                        They both talk about how to add entries under the advanced menu system as many things are rather touchy with the BootMenu directly. That said, so long as there’s information contained in the Advanced menu, changes are likely things will work for your scenario.

                                        Thank you,

                                        Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG! Get in contact with me (chat bubble in the top right corner) if you want to join in.

                                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

                                        Please support FOG if you like it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Support_FOG

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                                          qUoTuM
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you.
                                          It works, but only if the ISO is in the “www/fog” directory.
                                          If I create an own directory “www/ISO” and set chmod to 777 it does not work.

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                                          • JunkhackerJ
                                            Junkhacker Developer
                                            last edited by

                                            i keep my ISO files in a separate folder from www/fog, and it works fine and my permissions are set to 644.
                                            have you tried testing the location you put into the “advanced” menu in a browser? it should ask if you want to download the file.

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