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Issue while booting through PXE

Posted: 27 May 2016, 08:57
by Kriogen
Hello,
I am running WDS on a Windows Server 2012 R2 and syslinux to boot linux images over PXE.
I unpacked the ISO in the images folder and added the lines for PXE boot, however, when booting Porteus through PXE i get this error:
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Can anyone tell me why i get that error? Also, perhaps i didn't do the setup ok.
Do i need to have the ISO within the Image boot folder?

Did anyone else configure pxe booting with wds for porteus?

Re: Issue while booting through PXE

Posted: 27 May 2016, 11:57
by Bogomips
Welcome to Porteus. Moving this topic to Newbies for a start.

Re: Issue while booting through PXE

Posted: 27 May 2016, 13:13
by Kriogen
And hoping that here it will receive an answer :)

Re: Issue while booting through PXE

Posted: 27 May 2016, 15:21
by fanthom
Hello Kriogen,

Looks like initrds (kiosk needs both when booting over network) were not transported on the client side. Please follow this document:
porteus-kiosk.org/pxe-server.html

Btw: next time please mention that you are using kiosk as PXE methods differ between kiosk and desktop editions.

Thank you.

Re: Issue while booting through PXE

Posted: 27 May 2016, 16:30
by Kriogen
Well, it appears that i also really need a httpd server running on the wds machine.
So it looks like i won't be able to do PXE boot for Porteus since i will not install any httpd service on that server.

I will just go with the simple solution, burn ISO on usb stick and boot from that :)

Thanks for your time.