Netboot for Noobs Tutorial 2

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Ok Netboot works, so 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. You should see:

Text

​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 in the following:

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

• 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 :

• Get PXE zip file from the Parted Magic website (scroll down a bit to get to the PXE ZIP files and choose the correct one for your architecture): here

• 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 and 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 command line 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,
  • Post on forum link here.

Go back to Amahi Netboot for noobs

Also see Netboot