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      RTOadmin last edited by

      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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        Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

        @RTOadmin Do you still need further assistance on this topic?

        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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          Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

          @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.

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            RTOadmin @Sebastian Roth last edited by

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            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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              Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

              @RTOadmin What does the file and directory structure in that new partition look like?

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                RTOadmin last edited by

                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?
                Thank you

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                  Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by

                  @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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                    RTOadmin last edited by

                    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 partition

                    Do you have a hint for me?

                    Kind regards
                    Mathew

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                      Sebastian Roth Moderator last edited by Sebastian Roth

                      @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)

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