Posts made by Slimzy

is there a way to bind a root-path per item in the menu or we can’t?

@george1421

last time did a pxe server in a suse os i was booting from a copy of the iso. be editing every file of the isolinux file the the new path.

also doing that in fog could very well make fog the best pxe server

@george1421 said in ipxe with sanboot:

why do you want to boot kali linux from the FOG server. Is your end goal to netboot into a live environment with

the end goal is to get rid of CD/DVD and usb key.
and also to make as simple as possible (almost drop in) so that i can refresh the distro iso without to much time to make the magic happen.

the only other way i can actually see would be to install each distro i what to do and then to configure it to read and connect automatically on the iscsi drive. ( would be doable in a vm to not lose to much time and with script). but to be determined. tell me if that would be something interesting ( could possibly forward the recompiled iso to add into the plugin section for a easy way to get those for other.

also the more the merrier they say !

they do have a tutorial but is a netboot (light-boot) iso

@george1421

well memdisk as a limit it can transfer, which is why i’m not using it.

at the step i am right know using :

sanboot iscsi:10.0.0.200:::1:iqn.2017-11.net.tghit:kali

it actually boot but trying to install fail due to that os trying to load the “cd”
so my goal is to use iscsi to mimic a cd/dvd but it need to stay connected while the iso is booting which is the challenge for me since i try to do an all os compatible pxe install server

now i’m just curious if i can make the iscsi drive stay and appear like a cd/dvd drive… hmmmm…

yes tried memdisk the thing is that the iso is looking for a sr0 (probably the dvd-drive) wich is why i’m currious about booting from the iso as a scsi drive (target).

@Sebastian-Roth

please take a look to my edit

you can ping 8.8.8.8 it’s a DNS issue not your config ! because your only not able to resolve

Hell all,

so im currently running on Ubunbtu 17.10 and the latest fog updates.
also tgt is installed.

so i tried to boot iso with sanhook and sanboot on iscsi target but no luck i always get bad argument on sanhook.

now i am able to boot on iso with:

sanboot http://10.0.0.200/fog/service/ipxe/iso/kali-linux-2017.2-amd64.iso

then when i try to lunch an install well the install try to look itself up on a drive, from where the idea of mounting the iso from a iscsi target.

there is a bunch of distro doing that.

is there a way ? kind of doing that for the sake of being able to renew and add iso without too much alteration.

Thanks for the help
EDIT
ok so after so digging,

sanhook -d 0x81 

is actually not giving any error the issue is the root-path …
my DHCP server is a pfsense server also the root-path in the dhcp is pointing to a iscsi drive.

but here is a preview of what i what to do :

sanhook -d 0x81 ${root-path}
 sanboot --no-describe iscsi:10.0.0.200:iqn.2017-11.net.tghit:kali

the iscsi drive is actually the iso itself !
i just need to be able to get the client to mount it !

Also i read that those line could help to solve my issue still not too sure.

        set iscsi-server 10.0.0.200
        set base-iqn iqn.2017-11.net.tghit
        set base-iscsi iscsi:${iscsi-server}::::${base-iqn}
        isset ${hostname} && set initiator-iqn ${base-iqn}:${hostname} || set initiator-iqn ${base-iqn}:${mac}

please oh please help

For now i was able to boot from iscsi using :

sanboot iscsi:10.0.0.200:::1:iqn.2017-11.net.tghit:kali

but still having my cd load issue … will figure this out and might even post the solution in the dev post so that maybe we can have only a drop in iso for boot wizzard ?