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Boot pxe from partition instead of USB

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    RTOadmin
    last edited by Feb 24, 2023, 1:34 PM

    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 Sebastian Roth Feb 25, 2023, 7:57 AM Feb 25, 2023, 1:56 PM

      @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)

      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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        RTOadmin
        last edited by Feb 28, 2023, 8:09 AM

        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 Feb 28, 2023, 5:29 PM

          @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?

          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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            RTOadmin
            last edited by Mar 1, 2023, 8:48 AM

            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 Mar 1, 2023, 5:29 PM

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

              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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                RTOadmin @Sebastian Roth
                last edited by Mar 4, 2023, 9:38 AM

                @Sebastian-Roth

                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 Mar 4, 2023, 12:12 PM

                  @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.

                  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 Mar 15, 2023, 9:54 PM

                    @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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                      RTOadmin @Sebastian Roth
                      last edited by RTOadmin Aug 28, 2023, 1:34 PM Aug 28, 2023, 7:32 PM

                      @Sebastian-Roth said in Boot pxe from partition instead of USB:

                      https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_on_a_MAC#Using_bless

                      I understand the bless comand but will this not change the boot partition permanently? I dont have a problem to boot from the right partion.

                      Hi,

                      no I have the time to deal with this problem again.

                      Again further details how I have done it:

                      1. made a fat 32 partition in my intel iMac
                      2. copied all the files from my working USB-Boot-Stick to the partition
                      3. Started the mac by holding the option key
                      4. No I could choice the boot partition (my new Fat 32 boot partition with all files from the working usb-boot-stick)
                      5. got the eror:
                        app.efi: LocateProtocoll(AppleLogging) succeeded
                        error: no such partition

                      could it be that there have to be done other work that the fat32 boot partition will find the exact file to boot.
                      I have made the USB-boot sticks with Rufus. I dont kow if there were made changes by rufus.

                      thank you very much.
                      Mathew

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