pxe-server

This repository contains PXE server that should help in installing, testing and developing operating systems and firmware for PXE-capable platforms.

It was inspired by effort required to test PC Engines apu2 platform.

./init.sh builds container and runs it exposing port 69. There is silent assumption that your host doesn't have port 69 in use.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/3mdeb/pxe-server.git
./init.sh

APU2 development and testing

Prepare iPXE

For those who want to test apu2 I advise to use 3mdeb/netboot configuration. After finished init.sh as described above. Run:

git clone https://github.com/3mdeb/netboot.git
NETBOOT_DIR=./netboot ./init.sh

Booting iPXE on recent firmware

This instruction assume you do not provide information about TFTP server over DHCP.

Boot to iPXE and type:

iPXE> ifconf net0
iPXE> dhcp net0
iPXE> set filename pxelinux.0
iPXE> set next-server 192.168.0.106
iPXE> chain tftp://${next-server}/${filename}

Robot Framework

Some automation of above process was mage. Relevant source code can be found here>