I had been using Clonezilla for some time. I was going to try out FOG and it seems far more complicated to setup in an existing PXE environment. So recently I learned for Clonezilla how to setup a UEFI PXE environment (been using bios version for 10+ years) and have my machines load Grub via PXE and have a selection of options: Ubuntu install, Fedora Install, and Clonezilla. I would like to add FOG to my list of options to boot. Clonezilla I have mount an SMB shared location from my file server as a place to land images. I’d like to setup a similar setup for FOG. For the Ubuntu install, Fedora Install, and Clonezilla I have a simple Ubuntu vm setup as a tftp and web server that serve the needed files. I have the typical /tftpboot location reshared via web http://tftp/tftp on that same server (I named the server tftp) I created another vm server for fog and it looks like a very complicated install vs clonezilla. Looks like it uses ipxe as it’s pxe boot loader which the config looks like pxelinux’s that I have used for bios PXE boot. After installing FOG on it’s own server I was thinking I could probably try installing it on my tftp server and add a line to grub.cfg to try it out.
I’d rather use grub than ipxe
I’ll need to convert
LABEL fog
kernel ipxe.krn dhcp && chain http://${next-server}/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=${net0/mac}
to a grub config.
next-server I can replace with the ip and I can figure out how to get the mac in grub.
Just curious if anyone has any recommendations for a multiboot pxe environment?
Would it be easier to use ipxe as the default boot loader how to convert the following grub lines to ipxe?
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
menuentry "Clonezilla-live 2019-09-03 x64"{
linux /cz190903.x64/live/vmlinuz video=800x600 boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch="no" locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE toram=filesystem.squashfs fetch=http://tftp/tftp/cz190903.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs
initrd /cz190903.x64/live/initrd.img
}
menuentry "Ubuntu-18.04"{
linux /u18.04.x64/linux vga=788 --- quiet
initrd /u18.04.x64/initrd.gz
}
menuentry "Install Fedora 30 64-bit"{
linux /f30/vmlinuz inst.stage2=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/30/Workstation/x86_64/os/ edd=off ip=dhcp
initrd /f30/initrd.img
}
in the above the kernel and initrd are transferred over tftp but would also be accessible via http://tftp/tftp/<same path as tftp>
I also have bios boot using pxelinux.0 and similar lines in it’s config.
Does ipxe work in both bios and UEFI?