Netboot for Noobs Tutorial 2

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HAVE TO FIX FORMATTING

Ok Netboot works, Now what? Now lets add parted magic to the menu and try booting it.

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Step 1: Create share in amahi Dashboard:

login ->Setup->Shares->New Share

Name: Call it tfpt/pxe or whatever you want

Location:/usr/share/amahi-netboot/tftp

• Note:This is where amahi-netboot installs configuration files

If you browse this folder you should see:

• boot.msg
• logo.16
• menu.c32
• other.conf
• f2
• memtest
• minirooot.gz
• pxelinux.0
• vmlinuz
• pxelinux.cfg folder

Step 2: Add Parted Magic entry to menu:

- Navigate into pxlinux.cfg folder
- Right click on "default" file and edit with notepad++

You should see:

DEFAULT menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 100 # start the default after 10 seconds MENU TITLE --== Amahi Netboot Main Menu ==-- # Exit the PXE stack and boot the local system LABEL bootlocal MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Boot from the Hard Drive localboot 0 LABEL PBA MENU LABEL PBA ---> kernel vmlinuz APPEND nfsdir=hda:/var/hda/apps/pba/client/iso lang=us ramdisk_size=100000 nomce dma nosound apm=power-off nopcmcia nofirewire init=/etc/init nomce vga=normal initrd=miniroot.gz 2 BOOT_IMAGE=insert LABEL memtest86+ MENU LABEL Memtest86+ ---> kernel memtest/memtest86+-1.65

At the bottom paste the following:

LABEL pmagic MENU LABEL Parted Magic KERNEL images/pmagic/bzImage APPEND noapic INITRD images/pmagic/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=100000D

Note the paths after KERNEL & INITRD images/pmagic/ Save and close file.

Go to the your share Create New folder called images and inside another new folder called pmagic so it has following structure your share/pxelinux.cfg/ your share/images/pmagic/

Step 3: Download Parted Magic pxe zip file here:

http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads

right click=> 7zip->open or extract archive

locate the files bzimage and initrd.img

copy them to the newly created folder: your share/images/pmagic

All done Open virtual box and boot into amahi netboot on your test virtual machine and you should see a new entry: Parted Magic

Choose it and it should immediately display:

Loading images/pmagic/bzimage.....
Loading images/pmagic/initrd.img.........................

It may take a couple of minutes to load into memory and boot depending on your network connection and activity

All that and not one bash commandline entry!

Works:Go on to Netboot Tutorial 3

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Troubleshooting if it doesn't work:

• If you select Parted Magic and the screen just blinks
  • Double check the KERNEL path in your menu entry:

            KERNEL images/pmagic/bzImage

• If it starts and doesn't boot completely
  • double check the INITRD menu entry

            INITRD images/pmagic/initrd.img

• Still nothing,
  • I problably messed up something on this page. post on forum link
    • http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3596