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Is it possible to do a BIOS upgrade from a PXE boot?

I have a DHCP Server which is sending DHCP option 134 (a simple string of "this that something else"), and an altered MTU (1300) using dnsmasq: dhcp-option-force=FREEBSD,26,1300 dhcp-option-force=FREEBSD,134,this that something else dnsmasq-dhcp: 1 sent size: 2 option: 26 mtu 1300...

I have the FreeBSD machines in my PXE cluster down with very weird behavior. "pxeboot" (the bootloader you get specified from dhcpd and that is retrieved via tftp) hangs. There were significant changes in recent versions, but I tried those from FreeBSD releases 11, 14 and 15-current (and a few...

I've attempted to boot a diskless guest via PXE. Unfortunately, it's not working for me. Here's what I have done and tested successfully. All involved systems are FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE: NFSv3 setup on guest 1 "NFS server" exports /nfs and all subdirectories with -maproot=0 base.txz, kernel.txz...

Hi, My setup is like following. server1 = primary server setup with carp, it is running the dnsmasq and it is also the gateway for my local network 192.168.1.0/24 server2= secondary server setup with carp, it is also running the dnsmasq (/var/db/dnsmasq.leases is copied from server1) and it is...

I am attempting to boot FreeBSD (base.txz and kernel.txz of 14-CURRENT snapshot) over the network with nfsroot. My DHCP/NFS server is Ubuntu 20.04 and running dnsmasq for DHCP. It boots a legacy BIOS mode client machine with pxeboot and nfsroot without problem. My loader.conf is...

Dear Helpers, I am pretty much new to PXE installation and even System management. (Please forgive me if any term is not vague or incorrect.) Almost for 4 days, I have been struggling to install FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso into the hard disk but I am not sure about how I set the boot...

Hello all, I have a set of diskless clients that I want to run off of TFTP + NFS / PXEBOOT To achieve this I have set up an install medium that boots the device , executes a script under systemd(linux) that mounts my FreeBSD 12.1 server and starts copying the files to their new roots. For...

From the official wiki pxeboot(8) I could see that the option root-path must be given in order to finish netboot for FreeBSD using NFS mount root directory, for instance: option root-path "nfs://10.0.0.1/FreeBSD"; but in this case, it is only possible to boot a certain version of FreeBSD that...

Hello SMEs, I have learned from a Pluralsight course on how to PXE install Linux Distributions, e.g. CentOS7.2. And I succeeded following the guideline of the course, i.e. by setting up a DHCP, TFTP server, and FTP server, then configure the pxelinux.0 file as needed. The process is pretty neat...

I am trying to setup a PXE boot server so that I network install FreeBSD and Linux (redhat & centOS). I am doing this on FreeBSD 12.1 I am have FreeBSD setup on a server with ZFS-on-root using tftp-hpa. My question is - Do I have to have a NFS mount for booting FreeBSD? Can I make it a...

Hallo, I want to make a PXE BSD Install. The DHCP Server is running and is being recognized. But I get a Timeout for TFTP. My Config files: https://nopaste.xyz/?043867399f299a2e#n7iFVMqajs/D2CBIxkIX1Lbkoa46uEMdjA9QmAKWHyo= I tried with Windows Programm "Serva Community" and it worked. It...