Trusted, Bureaucrats, Administrators
12,424
edits
Changes
From Amahi Wiki
Netboot for Noobs Tutorial 2 (view source)
Revision as of 01:38, 1 February 2019
, 01:38, 1 February 2019→Troubleshooting if it doesn't work:
{{WorkInProgressNeedsUpdate}} <b>NOTE:</b> 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
__NOTOC__
* Navigate into pxlinux.cfg folder
* Right click on "default" file and edit. You should see:
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 100 # start the default after 10 seconds
LABEL PBA
MENU LABEL PBA --->
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+ --->
*Save the file.
*Create folder in your share called ''' "images" '''
*Create another folder in ''' "images" ''' called ''' "pmagic" '''
*Should have the following structure
<pre>
= Step 3: Download Parted Magic : =
*Get Download Parted Magic (scroll down a bit to get to the PXE zip file ZIP files and choose the correct one for your architecture): [http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads herehttp://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads]
*Right click=> 7zip->open or extract archive
*Open virtual box.
[[File:starttest.png|none|500px|]]<br>
*Start''''' "test" '''''virtual machine and should display menu:
[[File:menupmagic.png|none|500px|]]<br>
*Select "Parted Magic" from menu and should display:
[[File:loadpmagic.png|none|500px|]]<br>
*It may take a couple of minutes to load into memory and boot depending on your network connection and activity
[[File:pmagic.png|none|500px|]]<br>
* <ins>If you select Parted Magic and the screen just blinks</ins>
**Double check the KERNEL path in your menu entry:
<pre> KERNEL images/pmagic/bzImage</pre>
* <ins>If it starts and doesn't boot completely</ins>
**double Double check the INITRD menu entry <pre> INITRD images/pmagic/initrd.img</pre>
* <ins>Permissions problems: login as root in console or putty</ins>
chown -Rc admin:admin tftp
chmod -Rc 755 tftp}}</pre>
* <ins>Still nothing, </ins>
**Post on forum link [http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=3596 here].
Go back to [[Amahi_Netboot_for_noobs|Amahi Netboot for noobs]]
Also see [[Netboot]]
