Boot pxe from partition instead of USB
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Hi,
is it possible to make a small partition with the grub pxe on every mac instead of pluging in a USB?
Did someone tried this?
If it is possible in OS X to hide the partition I think this would be the best way to boot iMacs…
thank you
Mathew -
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@RTOadmin Do you still need further assistance on this topic?
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@RTOadmin Please mount the partition, run
ls -alR /mnt/...
and post output here. With more eyes looking at this we might find if this is just a minor typo issue. -
It is the same as on my USB-Sticks. I only copied the content of the USB to the FAT Partition
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@RTOadmin What does the file and directory structure in that new partition look like?
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I made a partition in os X and formated it with FAT32, then i copied the stuff of my BootUSB to the partition. After this on botting the partition is shown as EFIboot.
When I select this FAT32 EFIboot the error will be shown.I think it could be a Problem with the masterboot record? but I dont have the experience to fix it.
Do think this could be the Problem?
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@RTOadmin said in Boot pxe from partition instead of USB:
… and booted form it with the following error
How exactly did you tell the Mac to boot from that partition?
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Hi,
thank you for repleing.I tried to boot form a FAT32 Partition with the grub form my working USB bootstick. I copied the files to the FAT32 Partition and booted form it with the following error
app.efi: LocateProtocoll(AppleLogging) succeeded
error: no such partitionDo you have a hint for me?
Kind regards
Mathew -
@RTOadmin I have not done it myself but would say it should be possible. Just deploy to a test machine and manually play with a boot partition.
Maybe this article is of help to you: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_on_a_MAC#Using_bless (just use
bless
to point to the iPXE binary on your disk)