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    • N
      nawar
      last edited by

      Is there a tutorial to pxe boot ESXI 5.5 using fog

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      • Tom ElliottT
        Tom Elliott
        last edited by

        No, because it works the same as a normal system pxe boot.

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        • george1421G
          george1421 Moderator
          last edited by george1421

          I agree, what specifically are you having a problem with? I can pxe boot VMs on my ESXi 5.5 servers.

          Just thinking about it, I seem to remember something about putting / enabling the vSwitches for promiscuous mode. (From memory) there is a tab in the vswitch setup that has 3 options and all three are disabled by default. One of those options was to allow promiscuous mode. That needs to be enabled.

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          • N
            nawar
            last edited by

            Hi
            I think my question wasn’t clear 🙂
            I want to boot a pc to esxi installer not VMs
            I tried a tutorial about pxe booting esxi in my fog server, but I’m keep getting “INT18: boot failure”.
            I think I have problem adding the esxi iso to the boot menu

            Thanks for ur help

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            • falkoF
              falko Moderator
              last edited by

              Have you checked the wiki?

              wiki include any iso in the bootmenu

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              • george1421G
                george1421 Moderator
                last edited by

                OK I think I have a path forward on this. Understand this is not a typical use case for FOG or something that FOG would even consider to support (speaking for myself not the FOG Project). You will have to do some work to assemble all of the bits. On the surface this should work.

                The first bit you need is from the vmware site.
                https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp#com.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50/GUID-2F0D4696-3681-4C13-9552-5280C6406376.html

                The important bits are:

                1. Copy the contents of the ESXi installer ISO image to the /var/www/html directory on the HTTP server.
                2. Modify the boot.cfg file with the information for the HTTP server.

                The other post is a KB I created for pxe booting MDT iso images. Use option 1 deployment method. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6284/booting-mdt-2013-litetouch-with-fog

                The idea is to create a folder in /var/www/html/fog called isoimages and then inside that folder create one called esxi55. Copy the contents of the esxi installer iso image (not the iso itself) to that location. Then you need to modify the boot.cfg in that folder /var/www/html/fog/isoimages/esxi55 with the proper settings (from step 2 of the vmware document).

                Lastly you MUST use a trunk build of FOG to be able to edit the pxe boot menu from the FOG configuration gui

                This next part is a bit of guessing based on Method 2 of my KB.
                Menu Item: esxi.BOOT
                Description: Boot ESXi 5.5 Installer
                Parameters:
                kernel -n mboot.c32 http://${next-server}/isoimages/esxi55/mboot.c32
                imgargs mboot.c32 -c http://${next-server}/isoimages/esxi55/boot.cfg
                boot

                I can’t say if this will work out of the box or take a little playing to make it work. All of the bits are aligned for this to possibly work.

                1. VMWare does support pxe booting the installer
                2. FOG (trunk) has the flexibility to support pxe booting non-standard images.

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                • N
                  nawar
                  last edited by

                  Thanks george I shall try it and come back with the results

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                  • JunkhackerJ
                    Junkhacker Developer
                    last edited by

                    i believe i was able to get the esxi iso to boot using memdisk iso raw

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