Set up PXE boot VM

PXE boot VM

• The ROCs and VTPs are booted using PXEboot. The PXEboot is hosted in a virtual machine located at the Hall ESX clusters. The VM name is "cdaqpxe.jlab.org"

Set up the PXE boot

• Install required packages: yum install nfs-utils tftp-server syslinux-tftpboot syslinux
• Enable nfs-server and tftp as root:

systemctl enable nfs-server.service
systemctl start nfs-server.service
systemctl enable tftp
systemctl start tftp

• Create PXE boot directory:

cd /tftpboot
mkdir linux-diskless

• Set up PXE boot configurations

cd /tftpboot/linux-diskless
cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 .
mkdir pxelinux.cfg

• Copy boot images from cdaqfs1 to /tftpboot/linux-diskless/:

scp -r root@cdaqfs1:/tftpboot/linux-diskless/boot .