[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 35793, member: 3582”]Very nice guide, but I feel it should be stated, and possibly even at the very top of your guide, that [B]Ubuntu 14.04 is NOT a recommended OS for installation[/B].

Thank you for taking the time to document your steps, we appreciate your work :)[/quote]

True… It has worked mostly reliably until the FOGMulticastManager service crashes and starts adding an un-ending line of “@@@@@@@@@” once a week and that same service needs to be:

[INDENT=1]service FOGMulticastManager stop[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]wait 30 sec or more[/INDENT]
[INDENT=1]service FOGMulticastManager start[/INDENT]

to get it working again…

So I’ll be adding a cron job to do those two lines on Sundays at 2AM…

So far this is the only glitch I have found with Ubuntu LTS Server 14.04…

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 35968, member: 8206”]I usually live boot ubuntu then test from speedtest.net.

Also can break the group into smaller groups, then test multicast speed, determine which group is slower, repeat until you only have a few computers to test.

I had to troubleshoot a lab of 60 computers and that’s how I did it. Not super elegant unfortunately.

It might also be possible to boot into debug mode and run a few linux commands like ethtools to see link speeds.[/quote]

I could not get Ubuntu to PXE boot with network access, it doesn’t see any network cards… Ubuntu Live takes a while to boot on a 100MB network too…

The ethtools… I’ll give it a try…

DebugMode does show the Link Speed as it boots:

e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

I learned that you can Shift + PgUp to scroll back into the boot time messages…

[quote=“Eli Kelly, post: 33173, member: 1152”]This is working pretty well for me. Much credit to others on this forum who came up with most of this…

[CODE]login && goto validate || goto return

:validate
iseq ${password} yourpasswordhere && goto MENU || goto return

:MENU
menu
item --gap – ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item ipxedemo ipxe online boot demo
item shell ipxe shell
item pe86 Generic WinPE x86
item lt86 MDT Lite Touch x86
item lt64 MDT Lite Touch x64
item ghost Ghost Boot
item dban Derek’s Boot and Nuke
item return return to previous menu
item hostinfo details about this computer
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:ipxedemo
chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

:pe86
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/pe86.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:lt86
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/lt86.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:lt64
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/lt64.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:ghost
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/ghost.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:dban
initrd http://${fog-ip}/ISO/dban.iso
chain memdisk iso raw ||
goto MENU

:return
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

:hostinfo
echo This computer : ||
echo MAC address…${net0/mac} ||
echo IP address…${ip} ||
echo Netmask…${netmask} ||
echo Serial…${serial} ||
echo Asset number…${asset} ||
echo Manufacturer…${manufacturer} ||
echo Product…${product} ||
echo BIOS platform…${platform} ||
echo ||
echo press any key to return to Menu ||
prompt
goto MENU

autoboot
item return return to previous menu
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:ipxedemo
chain http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php ||
goto MENU

:shell
shell ||
goto MENU

:return
chain http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac} ||
prompt
goto MENU

autoboot[/CODE][/quote]

Is there a way to display Link Speed? 10Mbit 100Mbit 1000Mbit??
Or is there a very light boot disk that can do it???

I looked over at the ipxe.org site and could not find anything on link/media speed…

Any ideas???

Having this info helps reduce the time figuring out which PC is the bad one when there is very slow multicast…

Anyone got Kaspersky Rescue Disc 10 working on iPXE?

Success!! Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386 Live boots off of iPXE!!!

Thanks to madskillz23

Here is a copy of my Advanced Boot Menu
Note: I have a copy of the CONTENTS of entire ISO of Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386 in both o these locations:

/images/ubuntu14041
and in
/var/www/fog/service/ipxe/images/ubuntu14041

==================================
set boot-url [url]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe[/url]
set boot-nfs ${fog-ip}:/images
:MENU
menu
item --gap – Boot Menu Title
item WinPE7 WinPE 7
item Ubuntu14 Ubuntu 14
item return return to previous menu
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:WinPE7
sanboot ${boot-url}/iso/winpe7.iso
goto MENU

:Ubuntu14
kernel ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs/ boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${boot-nfs}/ubuntu14041/
initrd ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/initrd.lz
boot
goto MENU

EDIT: Ubuntu 14.04.1 boots but I have no network access no NIC detected???

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 35740, member: 8206”]That one.

/var… is boot_url and web directory
/images is where the rest of your images are stored. that should have a fully extracted ubuntu dvd in a directory there. i[/quote]

By this you mean the following?:

/var/www/fog/service/ipxe/images/ubuntu14041 <- this folder has only these three files: vmlinuz initrd.lz and filesystem.squashfs

/images/ubuntu14041 <- this has the entire contents of the ISO

Actually, here is my menu… any help appreciated…

I extracted all files from the Ubuntu 14.04.1 i386 to /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/images/ubuntu14041

set boot-url [url]http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe[/url]
set boot-nfs ${fog-ip}:/${fog-webroot}/service/ipxe
:MENU
menu
item --gap – Boot Menu Advanced
item WinPE7 WinPE 7
item Ubuntu14 Ubuntu 14
item return return to previous menu
choose --default return --timeout 5000 target && goto ${target}

:WinPE7
sanboot ${boot-url}/iso/winpe7.iso
goto MENU

:Ubuntu14
kernel ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs/ vga=normal boot=casper netboot=nfs fetch:${boot_url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/filesystem.squashfs nfsroot=${boot-nfs}/images/ubuntu14041/
initrd ${boot-url}/images/ubuntu14041/casper/initrd.lz
boot
goto MENU

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 35736, member: 8206”]set boot_url [url]http://${fog-ip}/fog/service/ipxe[/url]
set boot_nfs 128.104.71.88:/images[/quote]

/images as in the same as where the computer images get stored and therefore that’s where my /ubuntu folder should be at

OR

/images as in /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/images/ubuntu

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 35733, member: 8206”]I am pretty sure these work. Let me know if they don’t though and I should be able to find the backup copy of the arguments.
[CODE]:Xubuntu14
kernel ${boot_url}/xubuntu14.04/casper/vmlinuz.efi root=/dev/nfs/ boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${boot_nfs}/xubuntu14.04/
initrd ${boot_url}/xubuntu14.04/casper/initrd.lz
boot

:Ubuntu14
kernel ${boot_url}/ubuntu14.04/vmlinuz.efi vga=normal boot=casper netboot=nfs fetch:${boot_url}/ubuntu/casper/filesystem.squashfs nfsroot=${boot_nfs}/ubuntu14.04/
initrd ${boot_url}/ubuntu14.04/initrd.lz
#imgargs
boot[/CODE][/quote]

how is ${boot_nfs} built???

[quote=“madskillz23, post: 28476, member: 8206”]Awesome, that got me most of the way there. Now its just messing around with kernel arguments for the two Ubuntu distros. But, I did get Xubuntu 13.04 working with the following code in case anyone else finds it useful:

[CODE]:Xubuntu 13.04
kernel ${boot_url}/xubuntu/casper/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs/ boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/images/xubuntu/
initrd http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/fog/service/ipxe/xubuntu/casper/initrd.lz
boot
[/CODE]

Thanks for all the help![/quote]

madskillz23,

Did you get Ubuntu 14.04 to boot??

I extracted all the files from the ISO and put them into /images/ubuntu14041/ and it tries to boot but I get the “(initramfs) Unable to find a live file system on the network” message…