Netboot for Noobs Tutorial 2
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NOTE: This is for Fedora 14 ONLY and needs updated to reflect Amahi 7 specifics.
Ok Netboot works, so now what? Let's try adding Parted Magic
- 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
- Navigate into pxlinux.cfg folder
- Right click on "default" file and edit. 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 in the following:
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 :
- Download Parted Magic (scroll down a bit to get to the PXE ZIP files and choose the correct one for your architecture): 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 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
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
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