Netboot for Noobs Tutorial 2

Ok Netboot works, Now what?

Let's try adding Parted Magic

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Step 1: Create share in amahi Dashboard:

login -> Setup -> Shares -> New Share

Name: Call it "netboot" or "pxe" or "tftp" or whatever you want. I use "pxe" .

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 INITRD images/pmagic/initrd.img APPEND noapic root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=100000D

Save the file.

Create folder in your share called "images"

Create another folder in "images" called "pmagic"

Should have the 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

Open virtual box.

Start "test" virtual machine and

should display menu:

Select "Parted Magic" from menu

Should display:

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 to 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

• Permissions problems: login as root in console or putty

bash code
​cd /usr/share/amahi-netboot/ chown -Rc admin:admin tftp chmod -Rc 755 tftp​

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