PXE Network Boot?

[g40]

Greetings.

Does anyone has a working PXE boot set up? If so I wonder if it might be possible to get a wireshark trace of the proceedings?

My PI3 using the next firmware branch is not even getting to the TFTP stage. It issues 1 solitary DHCPDISCOVER and then goes quiet.

Many thanks for any possible assistance.

Jerry.

[DougieLawson]

The absolute crux of the problem is getting dnsmasq running with the right PXE option string.

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port=0
dhcp-range=10.42.0.255,proxy
log-dhcp
enable-tftp
tftp-root=/tftpboot
pxe-service=0,"Raspberry Pi Boot"

If you follow the tutorial at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... utorial.md it should "just work" unless something else on your network is serving up the DHCPOFFER packets.

[g40]

Yes, thanks, that link visited a good number of times. Sadly, and unlike other boards on the network, the Pi is no-go. I'll post if I get any further with this one.

[DougieLawson]

Have you run the one-time boot to enable USB/PXE?
Have you tested that by booting from a USB?

The way I got it working was to build a USB stick with a bootable system on it. Then move that USB stick to my RPi2B so I could get the TFTP and BOOTP stuff running using the same bootable image (with a different command line and different /etc/fstab).

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