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How do I chain boot from grub to syslinux?

I am expanding my rescue usb flash disk. The USB's partition is bootable, and I have installed GRUB to the MBR of the jump drive. It works pretty well - I can boot Freedos and run some utilities,and I can boot PING. I would like to add the Ubuntu…
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Can a PXE+DHCP server exist on one network and boot machines on another?

I have a PXE+DHCP server creaed using syslinux and already running on a private network segment (198.19.99.xxx).. I want to know if this PXE+DHCP server can be configured to boot machines over another network segment (172.16.87.xxx)? If the two…
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How do I check what version of syslinux I have?

How do I check what version of syslinux I have?
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Syslinux: How to correctly configure for UEFI PXE boot?

A variety of machines will happily boot a custom bzImage via PXE in legacy mode using syslinux. In UEFI mode, one of these machines and a newer UEFI only board get assigned an IP address, TFTP syslinx.efi from the server and then freeze. Now I'm…
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Shutdown computer with Syslinux - poweroff.c32 & acpioff.c32

Does anyone know how i could shutdown ACPI Bios computer (without APM) using Syslinux ? This is the configuration I am using : LABEL Shutdown MENU LABEL ^Shutdown computer KERNEL /tools/poweroff.c32 TEXT HELP Shutdown the…
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Defining a new location for syslinux configuration files when setting up PXELinux

I am working on a mock up of a PXE server for the place I work. I am trying to put the image files and configuration file in places that keep things a little more organized. Even though my dhcpd.confspecifies the configuration options needed to tell…
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ESXi Not Booting from USB

I hope you can help, because I'm stumped. I've got an old HP DL385 G2 server. I have successfully installed VMWare ESXi 6.0 to an old 16GB Corsair Voyager flash drive. Because I didn't like the USB hanging off the server, I figured I'd utilise the…
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Chainloading syslinux using grub2

I created a syslinux/isolinux hybrid CD iso to boot either legacy bios or eufi depending on what is needed. The legacy bios part works well and has worked for many years. I am using the newest (6.0.3) version of syslinux. I used a rhel7 efiboot.img…
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What's the equivalence of pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.cfg/default configration for UEFI?

I use Pxe to servers with BIOS(legacy mode), which works perfectly. Set Legacy mode and boot servers from PXE, it would load pxelinux.0 and read config menus via TFTP from /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. Here is tcpdump for legacy one …
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CloneZilla syslinux.cfg works on yakkety but not on artful

I installed CloneZilla 20180329 amd64, the artful alternative version and tried to automate some settings via the ocs_prerun variables. Specifically I want to set the locale and keyboard layout, the Wifi connection (if possible not the password) +…
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trying to netboot Linux using PXELinux 6.03 in a EUFI 64 board, tftp too slow

I am trying to set up a kids-school lab, using x5-Z8350 based mini PCs: https://ark.intel.com/products/93361/Intel-Atom-x5-Z8350-Processor-2M-Cache-up-to-1_92-GHz Mine seems to have an AMI 64 UEFI "bios". I have managed to offer IP from Ubuntu…
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pxelinux.0 doesnt try to load ldlinux.c32

I've been setting up a PXE Server to automate Linux deployments. Everything was working fun until something magically broke (i.e. I must have changed something, but cannot for the life of me figure out what it was). snippet of dhcpd.conf (some…
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Boot .iso from PXE server via HTTP

I have set up on my FreeBSD 10.3 PXE Boot server, using Syslinux. Boot via TFTP works fine, but via HTTP returns to PXE menu. Getting all files from browser works fine. # cat /usr/tftpdata/pxelinux.cfg/default label mfsbsd menu label ^MfsBSD 10.3…
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PXE boot cannot find syslinux config file, where is it looking?

I am running a PXE server mock up in VMware Workstation. I have the DHCP and TFTP servers working and I can get my to grab an IP address and boot the firmware for their platform. Where I seem to be running into trouble is all clients are failing to…
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pxelinux hanging when booting client machine

I'm kind of new to all of this, so please forgive any vagueness/misunderstandings on my part. I'm using pxelinux and VMs to create CentOS 6.0 machines that have the same install every time. I have a new VM set to boot from network, but in the…
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