#ipxe — Public Fediverse posts

Ok, computer touchers, I've got netboot.xyz.efi on my tftp server and set the DHCP option so my desktop which I'm testing on will try to boot from it... but my network doesn't allow outbound HTTP and you have to go through a proxy. Anyone know how to set the proxy for netboot.xyz / iPXE ? I'm doing some web searches but only finding hints not solutions so far.

#netboot #iPXE #linux #networking

Michael Brown released #iPXE version 2.0.0. https://ipxe.org/download

At @bawuenet we're in the process of upgrading our #Xen #xcpng hypervisors to #uefi boot. Of course, we automate things and want to be able to reinstall our hypervisors from network boot. Our EFI netboot system is based on #ipxe which means it can only load EFI binaries. But xcp-ng ships the Xen kernel as a multiboot2 based image.
As probably one of the most weird ways to solve this problem, I've decided to chainload #grub2 from iPXE and learned a bit! 🧵

At @bawuenet we're in the process of upgrading our #Xen #xcpng hypervisors to #uefi boot. Of course, we automate things and want to be able to reinstall our hypervisors from network boot. Our EFI netboot system is based on #ipxe which means it can only load EFI binaries. But xcp-ng ships the Xen kernel as a multiboot2 based image.
As probably one of the most weird ways to solve this problem, I've decided to chainload #grub2 from iPXE and learned a bit! 🧵

At @bawuenet we're in the process of upgrading our #Xen #xcpng hypervisors to #uefi boot. Of course, we automate things and want to be able to reinstall our hypervisors from network boot. Our EFI netboot system is based on #ipxe which means it can only load EFI binaries. But xcp-ng ships the Xen kernel as a multiboot2 based image.
As probably one of the most weird ways to solve this problem, I've decided to chainload #grub2 from iPXE and learned a bit! 🧵

At @bawuenet we're in the process of upgrading our #Xen #xcpng hypervisors to #uefi boot. Of course, we automate things and want to be able to reinstall our hypervisors from network boot. Our EFI netboot system is based on #ipxe which means it can only load EFI binaries. But xcp-ng ships the Xen kernel as a multiboot2 based image.
As probably one of the most weird ways to solve this problem, I've decided to chainload #grub2 from iPXE and learned a bit! 🧵

Сезам, грузися! Установка Windows XP на древний ноутбук без физических носителей

Недавно в моём районе открылась новая комиссионка, и конечно же, я наведался туда в первый же день. Особо заинтересовавшего улова было немного, но среди прочего попался красивый, хоть и побитый жизнью, ноутбук — ThinkPad X40. За каких-то 500 йен (260 рублей) такое чудо забрать просто обязательно. Правда беда вылезла, откуда не ждали. После подкидывания блока питания оказалось, что винчестер девственно чист. Однако попытки загрузиться с флешки, внешнего диска, или даже внешнего флопика, результата не приносили — неумолимо вылезала надпись "Operating System Not Found", да и названия устройств в биосе не появлялись. Беглый гуглёж показал — ранние серии X40 были очень часто подвержены внезапной смерти мультиконтроллера. Буквально подышишь не в ту сторону, втыкая флешку — и вот у тебя уже нету ни USB, ни звука. Можно было бы просто кинуть винчестер в USB-переходник и залить образ с другого компьютера, но и тут подстава — винчестер в нём 1.8 дюйма, и на шину IDE с напряжением до 3.3 вольта, поди найди такой адаптер. Вкладываться в покупку переходника, SSD и ещё адаптера с USB на mSata тоже не хотелось, ибо уже жаба задушит :-) Однако, в нём всё ещё есть опция загрузки по сети через PXE, может, это и спасло бы?

https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/961380/

#pxe #netboot #ipxe #загрузка_по_сети #windows_xp #ретрокомпьютинг #timeweb_статьи

Ультимативные крестики-нолики и iPXE

Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Вова, я разработчик

https://habr.com/ru/companies/selectel/articles/888188/

#selectel #ненормальное_программирование #разработка_игр #ipxe #крестикинолики

Is it possible to manage netbook.xyz’s menu config files manually and not via the UI?
#netboot #ipxe

« https://netboot.xyz lets you #PXE boot various OS installers or utilities from a single tool over the network. This lets you use one media for many types of OS or tools. The #iPXE project is used to provide a user friendly menu from within the BIOS that lets you easily choose the OS you want along with any specific types of versions or bootable flags.

You can remote attach the ISO to servers, set it up as a rescue option in #GRUB or even set up your home network to boot to it by default »

Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
https://netboot.xyz/
#ycombinator #ipxe #netbootxyz #pxe #linux #operating_system #install #installer #netboot #netboot_xyz

Sidequest #iPXE issue

Serial output looks like:

NNoo mmoorree nneettwwoorrkk ddeevviicceess

Apparently this is a very old issue but I am not sure how to fix it without breaking my #QEMU setup

https://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7809

2024W08

Booting OmniOS using iPXE
https://neirac.srht.site/posts/ipxe_boot.html

OpenIndiana Package updates include:
— Firefox updated to 123.0
— Thunderbird updated to 115.8.0
— HAProxy updated to 2.8.6
— NVIDIA 470 updated to 470.239.06
— NVIDIA updated to 550.54.14
— Samba updated to 4.19.5
— PHP updated to 8.2.16
— MariaDB updated to 10.6.17
— Many MATE components are updated to 1.28.0
— git updated to 2.44.0
— xterm updated to 390
And much more!

OmniOS Extras updates include:
— Squid Web Proxy v6.7 has been added
— Switched to Python 3.12

Tailscale for illumos updated to v1.60.0
https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.60.0-sunos

2024-02-15 Triton DataCenter Office Hours: Hypervisor Landscape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW24RUjEgcM
Join the next call: https://discord.gg/v4NwA3Hqay

2024-02-22 bhyve Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/d2itG4o1rMA

2024-02-21 OpenZFS Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/Hz-xPzmeEP4

2024-02-20 jail(8)/zones(7) Production Users Call
https://youtu.be/Q-OoE0L031M

SmartOS 20240222T001232Z
Interesting changes include:
— vmadm should worry less about bootrom
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/Joyent_Dev/public/SmartOS/smartos.html#20240222T001232Z

Support for Intel i225/226 2.5GbE igc(4D) has landed!
https://www.illumos.org/issues/14448
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/6bbbd4428a21d3f4d1d329851dbc599121cb5d31

pstack(1) works with Python (again!)
https://www.illumos.org/issues/16272
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/616d60f414d125f2dfc25908ca90a7c4451076c6

Editor’s note: This blog post was researched, written, edited and published on an OpenIndiana Workstation.

https://news.illumos.am/2024w08/

#bhyve #FreeBSD #FreeBSDJail #hypervisor #Intel #iPXE #NVIDIA #OfficeHours #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #OpenZFS #Python #SmartOS #Tailscale #TritonDataCenter #ZFS #zones

Ryan Does #NixOS - Part 7

I was able to generate the required files for #iPXE booting a #flake (#kernel + #initrd w/ #squashfs + iPXE script file), but kept running into issues with the kernel "unable to mount root fs" or "initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed archive". What is weird is that https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-images/ when booted through netboot.xyz works just fine, if I grab the underlying kernel + initrd + iPXE script on MULTIPLE #systems , it fails with the latter message.

This is really boggling my mind as I thought there was data corruption happening, but I am more likely to believe something is happening within NixOS's #zstd compression, or with that building process.

Ryan Does #NixOS - Part 6

Put in a few config files for the "micro" editor into my user config -> home-manager, and finally put a (hashed) password in for root. Empty passwords != auto login. I'll get around to setting up disko for the "hp" flake system soon, which will lead into experimenting with nixos-anywhere. "fire and forget" reproducible installs would be very cool, especially along with ISOs and #ipxe boot images.

Does anyone here have a public ipxe/netboot.xyz server?

I lost all my USB-sticks and I need to reinstall a machine

#askfedi #askfediverse #linux #ipxe #pxe #boot

Does anyone know the name of this iPXE server software, i remember it being written in some language like ruby or something (might be misremembering), and i was able to serve a distro using like 1-2 command line options?

#ipxe

Ignoring an issue with proposed fix for nearly three years, not giving any feedback, having community members(?) demand test cases (which don't exist for other use-cases either), all the while ignoring all communication on the topic, pushing all sorts of other changes to the project and *then* merging one's own implementation (of course without tests) instead.

Please, whatever you do, don't run your #freesoftware project like #ipxe, as it is how you will drive potential #contributors away.

This is interesting and inspirational. I was playing around with iPXE and custom bootable ISOs to allow customers to load any NodeSpace-supported OS. https://blog.cloudflare.com/deploying-firmware-at-cloudflare-scale-how-we-update-thousands-of-servers-in-more-than-285-cities/ #ipxe #opensource #infrastructure #cloud #baremetal

netbootxyz is a network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz

Pretty useful if you have the weird job/hobby of installing multiple operating systems to “places” and you want an all-in-one bootloader to ease your pain.

#tools #installers #bootloaders #ipxe #pxe #linux

netbootxyz is a network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE.

https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz

Pretty useful if you have the weird job/hobby of installing multiple operating systems to “places” and you want an all-in-one bootloader to ease your pain.

#tools #installers #bootloaders #ipxe #pxe #linux

Does anyone in the vicinity of Cambridge (UK) have an old 486-based system that they'd like to donate in the interests of debugging an #iPXE issue that apparently manifests only on real 486 hardware?