[rear-users] pxe

[Schlomo Schapiro]

Hey Carlos,

did you create those PXE boot menu entries yourself? You actually don't
need to as ReaR creates those for you automatically. Please take a look at
the example configurations at
https://github.com/rear/rear/tree/e75b86a7d0cc5d043e0712f0d9b6846797167525/usr/share/rear/conf/examples
(or /usr/share/rear/conf/examples on your system) for inspiration.

Also, please share all the files in /etc/rear that you created or modified
and the output of rear dump

In general, ReaR does not use nfsroot but only the kernel and initrd files
that ReaR generates. So you don't have to extract anything either.

Kind regards,
Schlomo

On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 at 10:24, Carlos HyD <carlos at hospedajeydominios.com>
wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to boot rear generated iso via pxe but have some problems
> to get it booting:
>
> so downloaded and mounted on:
> /var/lib/tftpboot/images/rear/
> 192.168.0.0/24(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)
>
> files in /var/lib/tftpboot/images/rear/
> - isolinux
> -r--r--r--. 1 root docker 2048 sep 2 12:37 boot.cat
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 20832 sep 2 12:37 chain.c32
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 287940 sep 2 12:37 hdt.c32
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 102906937 sep 2 12:37 initrd.cgz
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 24576 sep 2 12:37 isolinux.bin
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 2136 sep 2 12:37 isolinux.cfg
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4331056 ago 14 22:50 kernel
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 61796 sep 2 12:37 menu.c32
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 291 sep 2 12:37 message
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 522803 sep 2 12:37 modules.pcimap
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 1116345 sep 2 12:37 pci.ids
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 239 sep 2 12:37 poweroff.com
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 985 sep 2 12:37 rear.help
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 800 sep 2 12:37 reboot.c32
> -rw-------. 1 root docker 163728 sep 2 12:37 vesamenu.c32
>
> ** PXE menu config that not work:
>
> LABEL NewReaR
> MENU DEFAULT
> KERNEL kernel
> APPEND root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.37:/var/lib/tftpboot/images/rear
> initrd=images/rear/isolinux/initrd.cgz quiet splash --
>
> LABEL NewReaR2
> MENU DEFAULT
> KERNEL vmlinuz0
> APPEND netboot=nfs nfsroot=/var/lib/tftpboot/images/rear
>
> I think thant the main problem is that I don't have any vmlinuz file
> inside the downloaded iso, but also we are not sure which should be the
> right the lines conf at pxe menu.  Any advice or suggestion?
>
>
> Regards
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