Fog 0.33b edit PXE menu

[Jose Antonio Sanchez]

Success!! Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386 Live boots off of iPXE!!!

Thanks to madskillz23

Here is a copy of my Advanced Boot Menu
Note: I have a copy of the CONTENTS of entire ISO of Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386 in both o these locations:

/images/ubuntu14041
and in
/var/www/fog/service/ipxe/images/ubuntu14041

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set boot-url [url]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe[/url]
set boot-nfs ${fog-ip}:/images
:MENU
menu
item --gap – Boot Menu Title
item WinPE7 WinPE 7
item Ubuntu14 Ubuntu 14
item return return to previous menu
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:WinPE7
sanboot ${boot-url}/iso/winpe7.iso
goto MENU

:Ubuntu14
kernel ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs/ boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${boot-nfs}/ubuntu14041/
initrd ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/initrd.lz
boot
goto MENU

EDIT: Ubuntu 14.04.1 boots but I have no network access no NIC detected???

[Jose Antonio Sanchez]

Anyone got Kaspersky Rescue Disc 10 working on iPXE?

[Jose Antonio Sanchez]

[quote=“Eli Kelly, post: 33173, member: 1152”]This is working pretty well for me. Much credit to others on this forum who came up with most of this…

[CODE]login && goto validate || goto return

:validate
iseq ${password} yourpasswordhere && goto MENU || goto return

:MENU
menu
item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item ipxedemo ipxe online boot demo
item shell ipxe shell
item pe86 Generic WinPE x86
item lt86 MDT Lite Touch x86
item lt64 MDT Lite Touch x64
item ghost Ghost Boot
item dban Derek’s Boot and Nuke
item return return to previous menu
item hostinfo details about this computer
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:ipxedemo
chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

:pe86
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/pe86.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:lt86
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/lt86.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:lt64
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/lt64.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:ghost
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/ghost.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:dban
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/dban.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:return
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

:hostinfo
echo This computer : ||
echo MAC address…${net0/mac} ||
echo IP address…${ip} ||
echo Netmask…${netmask} ||
echo Serial…${serial} ||
echo Asset number…${asset} ||
echo Manufacturer…${manufacturer} ||
echo Product…${product} ||
echo BIOS platform…${platform} ||
echo ||
echo press any key to return to Menu ||
prompt
goto MENU

autoboot
item return return to previous menu
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:ipxedemo
chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

:return
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

autoboot[/CODE][/quote]

Is there a way to display Link Speed? 10Mbit 100Mbit 1000Mbit??
Or is there a very light boot disk that can do it???

I looked over at the ipxe.org site and could not find anything on link/media speed…

Any ideas???

Having this info helps reduce the time figuring out which PC is the bad one when there is very slow multicast…

[madskillz23]

[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35934, member: 25349”]Is there a way to display Link Speed? 10Mbit 100Mbit 1000Mbit??
Or is there a very light boot disk that can do it???

I looked over at the ipxe.org site and could not find anything on link/media speed…

Any ideas???

Having this info helps reduce the time figuring out which PC is the bad one when there is very slow multicast…[/quote]

I usually live boot ubuntu then test from speedtest.net.

Also can break the group into smaller groups, then test multicast speed, determine which group is slower, repeat until you only have a few computers to test.

I had to troubleshoot a lab of 60 computers and that’s how I did it. Not super elegant unfortunately.

It might also be possible to boot into debug mode and run a few linux commands like ethtools to see link speeds.

[Jose Antonio Sanchez]

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 35968, member: 8206”]I usually live boot ubuntu then test from speedtest.net.

Also can break the group into smaller groups, then test multicast speed, determine which group is slower, repeat until you only have a few computers to test.

I had to troubleshoot a lab of 60 computers and that’s how I did it. Not super elegant unfortunately.

It might also be possible to boot into debug mode and run a few linux commands like ethtools to see link speeds.[/quote]

I could not get Ubuntu to PXE boot with network access, it doesn’t see any network cards… Ubuntu Live takes a while to boot on a 100MB network too…

The ethtools… I’ll give it a try…

DebugMode does show the Link Speed as it boots:

e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

I learned that you can Shift + PgUp to scroll back into the boot time messages…

[madskillz23]

[quote=“Jose Antonio Sanchez, post: 35969, member: 25349”]I could not get Ubuntu to PXE boot with network access, it doesn’t see any network cards… Ubuntu Live takes a while to boot on a 100MB network too…

The ethtools… I’ll give it a try…

DebugMode does show the Link Speed as it boots:

e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

I learned that you can Shift + PgUp to scroll back into the boot time messages…[/quote]

Yeah ran into the same problem, here’s my solution on Ubuntu:
sudo dhclient eth0

[George]

Hi everyone

Does anyone tried to boot hirens boot cd from network