Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

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Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby cpg » Mon Aug 03, 2009 3:56 pm

Hi,

We were able to develop this integration of what used to be PXEKnife, but it's better named as Netboot, to boot multiple bootable images over the net:

Please take it for a spin:

rpm -Uvh http://files.getdropbox.com/u/364883/Am ... noarch.rpm

It should not break PBA (does not break it for me), and as a little example of what this can do, we included the famous memtest86+ memory test. See if you can run it by booting off the network after you install that RPM and report back.

If this works well, we will be able to package other things as apps that are net-bootable, such as net-images of Ubuntu and others, anti-virus, clonezilla, etc. etc.!

Thanks to bigfoot65 who's on fire, for helping first hand with this!

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby moredruid » Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:26 pm

just installed it... will check how it works in a few minutes (need to finish reading the board first :mrgreen: )
echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D2173656C7572206968616D41snlbxq' | dc
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby marcel » Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:45 pm

Found some time to test the new netboot feature. I enabled the ethernet boot rom in the bios. Restart the system and the rom is booting. Client ip, mask ip dhcp ip gateway ip are all ok. Next step TFTP, TFTP gives a error "TFTP open timeout". I'll will try this also on my notebook.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby cpg » Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:48 pm

just installed it... will check how it works in a few minutes (need to finish reading the board first :mrgreen: )
... and ... does it work? :)
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby marcel » Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:57 pm

Also tested it on my notebook. Same error as my desktop. Any idea what this might be?
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby cpg » Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:24 pm

thanks for testing this marcel.

can you check for any error messages in /var/log/messages ?
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby marcel » Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:32 pm

can you check for any error messages in /var/log/messages
can't find any strange things...
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby bsk » Sun Aug 09, 2009 2:46 pm

Post the output of:

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cat /var/log/messages
to http://paste.amahi.org and give us a link to the post here.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby GGD » Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:32 pm

Marcel

Did you get this error before or after the "upgrade" to 4.0?

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby moredruid » Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:54 pm

ah yes, forgot to post...

boots fine on my desktop box. I've run the memtest and the PBA (both backup & restore) and everything works as it should.
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