PXE at the DC LUG

[Gregory Nowak]

Hmm, sounds similar to what I'm doing here, except for the syslinux
part.

Greg


On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:23:01PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Here's a brief report on PXE from last night's DC LUG.
> 
> An audio recording was made and will, hopefully, be available in a nice,
> compressed, digital format soon.
> 
> PXE is an Intel standard and is probably present on most NICs out there
> today because it's been around for about 5 years.
> 
> NASA Goddard uses it when they need to reboot their clusters--though
> they've learned to stagger reboots because having all the hundreds of
> machines they control come up at the same time doesn't work.
> 
> PXE requires a PXE capable nic and an appropriate bios setting. That
> bios setting might be (do just the next boot over PXE) or "do all boots
> using PXE."
> 
> The first client server exchange is a dhcp negotiation which is also
> capable of passing additional data, such as what file to load next.
> 
> The next step is executing pxelinux which is a lot like, and is created
> by, the same people who do syslinux. And, you get to pass config data
> the same way, too.
> 
> After that, the boot can continue over tftp.
> 
> Example configs, etc., will be on the LUG web site soon.
> 
> PS: Here are some useful links I've found about PXE and Linux:
> 
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
> http://theo.me.uk/pages.shtml?page=remoteboot
> 
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