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

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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
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        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]


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          Kyle Rice
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          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
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            [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
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                    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
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                              Great tutorial video! Really helped me out! Thanks a lot!

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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 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,

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                                  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)

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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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                                        qUoTuM
                                        last edited by

                                        Yes i tried testing the location in Chrome/Firefox/IE. I tried setting the permissions to 644 either.
                                        I get the following error message: “[SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#000000]The requested URL … was not found on this server.”
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                                        • JunkhackerJ
                                          Junkhacker Developer
                                          last edited by

                                          if the files are within your web root, and you can’t download them with a browser, then you almost certainly have the URL wrong. keep in mind that anything past the first / is case sensitive

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                                            qUoTuM
                                            last edited by

                                            Yes I know that. I checked it several times. The URL is not wrong.
                                            I will do some more research tomorrow.

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