Discussion:
network boot
Spooner, Darren
15 years ago
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Hello,
This is what I have: I have a "Windows Deployment Server" and I have customized it to include "Parted Magic", so I can boot into WDS or Parted Magic.
I also have 50 workstations in police cars, all have wireless and wired cards. the wired cards are not PXE enabled.
so how do I create a USB stick so I can boot into the network?

Darren
Kyle Kienapfel
15 years ago
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gpxe can be booted off of a usb stick, r-o-m will even cough up an
image with all the wired network drivers

http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ This site will give you a gpxe.usb file if
you dont want to download and compile gpxe yourself.
Give this a read - http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Spooner, Darren
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Spooner, Darren
15 years ago
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Ok I got that to work, but I turns out that my nics are not supported
Is there a way someone can develop dirvers for the intel pro 1000 MT
and/or intel pro wireless 2915abg?
And put them on the rom-o-matic site?



-----Original Message-----
From: ***@gmail.com [mailto:***@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Kyle Kienapfel
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:58 PM
To: Spooner, Darren
Cc: etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] network boot

gpxe can be booted off of a usb stick, r-o-m will even cough up an
image with all the wired network drivers

http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ This site will give you a gpxe.usb file if
you dont want to download and compile gpxe yourself.
Give this a read - http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Spooner, Darren
Post by Spooner, Darren
Hello,
This is what I have: I have a "Windows Deployment Server" and I have
customized it to include "Parted Magic", so I can boot into WDS or
Parted Magic.
Post by Spooner, Darren
I also have 50 workstations in police cars, all have wireless and
wired cards. the wired cards are not PXE enabled.
Post by Spooner, Darren
so how do I create a USB stick so I can boot into the network?
Darren
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Joshua Oreman
15 years ago
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Spooner, Darren
Post by Spooner, Darren
Ok I got that to work, but I turns out that my nics are not supported
I'm sorry to hear that. It would be useful to have the exact
vendor:device PCI IDs for the NICs you're trying to get working
(available in Device Manager under Windows, or the output of `lspci
-nn' under Linux), so that we can pinpoint which drivers are missing.
Post by Spooner, Darren
Is there a way someone can develop dirvers for the intel pro 1000 MT
and/or intel pro wireless 2915abg?
And put them on the rom-o-matic site?
Drivers do not develop out of thin air. Wireless drivers especially
take a week or two of solid effort, even for someone who's done a lot
of them before.

If you are so inclined, you might consider learning the necessary
skills to develop a driver or drivers yourself; there are several
useful resources on http://etherboot.org/. If not, there are some very
skilled people in our community who do gPXE driver development under
contract. Our project leader, Marty Connor <***@etherboot.org>, is one
and can refer you to others.

Otherwise, this is a volunteer project for all of us, and
unfortunately we can't take a week or two away from our jobs to
develop something for free. We do this because we enjoy it. Drivers
for those two types of cards will probably come about eventually if
you wait, but I can't estimate as to when.

Thanks for your interest,

-- Josh
Spooner, Darren
15 years ago
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Intel Pro 1000 MT
Device instance ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&SUBSYS_10768086&REV_00\4&1A671D0C&0&38F0

Hardware IDs: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&SUBSYS_10768086&REV_00
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&SUBSYS_10768086
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&CC_0200

Compatible IDs: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076&REV_00
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076
PCI\VEN_8086&CC_020000
PCI\VEN_8086&CC_0200
PCI\VEN_8086
PCI\CC_020000
PCI\CC_0200

Intel Pro/wireless 2915abg
Device instance ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_05\4&1A671D0C&0&70F0

Hardware IDs: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&SUBSYS_10008086
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&CC_0280

Compatible IDs: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&REV_05
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223
PCI\VEN_8086&CC_028000
PCI\VEN_8086&CC_0280
PCI\VEN_8086
PCI\CC_028000
PCI\CC_0280

I did not know which one so I posted all of them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Oreman [mailto:***@rwcr.net]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 8:58 AM
To: Spooner, Darren
Cc: Kyle Kienapfel; etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] network boot

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Spooner, Darren
Post by Spooner, Darren
Ok I got that to work, but I turns out that my nics are not supported
I'm sorry to hear that. It would be useful to have the exact
vendor:device PCI IDs for the NICs you're trying to get working
(available in Device Manager under Windows, or the output of `lspci -nn'
under Linux), so that we can pinpoint which drivers are missing.
Post by Spooner, Darren
Is there a way someone can develop dirvers for the intel pro 1000 MT
and/or intel pro wireless 2915abg?
And put them on the rom-o-matic site?
Drivers do not develop out of thin air. Wireless drivers especially take
a week or two of solid effort, even for someone who's done a lot of them
before.

If you are so inclined, you might consider learning the necessary skills
to develop a driver or drivers yourself; there are several useful
resources on http://etherboot.org/. If not, there are some very skilled
people in our community who do gPXE driver development under contract.
Our project leader, Marty Connor <***@etherboot.org>, is one and can
refer you to others.

Otherwise, this is a volunteer project for all of us, and unfortunately
we can't take a week or two away from our jobs to develop something for
free. We do this because we enjoy it. Drivers for those two types of
cards will probably come about eventually if you wait, but I can't
estimate as to when.

Thanks for your interest,

-- Josh
Kyle Kienapfel
15 years ago
Permalink
Intel Pro 1000 MT
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076
vendor 8086
device 1076

PCI VENDOR CODE: 8086 PCI DEVICE CODE: 1076
I just successfully got a bootrom from rom o matic for the wired
adaptor so it should be supported. Whats the name of the file you
downloaded off of rom-o-matic?

Intel Pro/wireless 2915abg
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_05
Vendor ID 8086 and the device ID is 4223
so vendor:device is 8086:4223


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Spooner, Darren
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Spooner, Darren
15 years ago
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gpxe-0.9.9+-gpxe.usb is the name of the file I downloaded off rom-o-matic.

-----Original Message-----
From: ***@gmail.com [mailto:***@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Kyle Kienapfel
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:10 PM
To: Spooner, Darren
Cc: Joshua Oreman; etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] network boot

Intel Pro 1000 MT
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1076
vendor 8086
device 1076

PCI VENDOR CODE: 8086 PCI DEVICE CODE: 1076
I just successfully got a bootrom from rom o matic for the wired adaptor so it should be supported. Whats the name of the file you downloaded off of rom-o-matic?

Intel Pro/wireless 2915abg
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_4223&SUBSYS_10008086&REV_05
Vendor ID 8086 and the device ID is 4223 so vendor:device is 8086:4223
...
Shao Miller
15 years ago
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Post by Spooner, Darren
gpxe-0.9.9+-gpxe.usb is the name of the file I downloaded off rom-o-matic.
Sounds good. If you write this file to your USB "stick" and flush all
write buffers before removing ("Safely Remove Hardware" in Windows),
then you can boot the USB "stick" on the police car's computer. To
confirm that gPXE supports the NIC on the computer, press Control-B at
the Control-B prompt, then at the gPXE CLI, enter:

ifstat

where you will see just which network interfaces gPXE supports. Of
course, in a police car, your wired NIC might not be wired to anything!
Joshua Oreman already spoke about wireless options.

Good luck!

- Shao Miller
Spooner, Darren
15 years ago
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Ok I was not Safely Removing the hardware, so I redid the usb drive and
then I put it in an old Dell GX260 and it worked.

But for the computers in the cars it did not work, I am thing the BISO
does not support it

What do you think?





From: Shao Miller [mailto:***@yrdsb.edu.on.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:10 AM
To: Spooner, Darren
Cc: etherboot-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Etherboot-discuss] network boot



Spooner, Darren wrote:

gpxe-0.9.9+-gpxe.usb is the name of the file I downloaded off
rom-o-matic.


Sounds good. If you write this file to your USB "stick" and flush all
write buffers before removing ("Safely Remove Hardware" in Windows),
then you can boot the USB "stick" on the police car's computer. To
confirm that gPXE supports the NIC on the computer, press Control-B at
the Control-B prompt, then at the gPXE CLI, enter:

ifstat

where you will see just which network interfaces gPXE supports. Of
course, in a police car, your wired NIC might not be wired to anything!
Joshua Oreman already spoke about wireless options.

Good luck!

- Shao Miller
Shao Miller
15 years ago
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Post by Spooner, Darren
Ok I was not Safely Removing the hardware, so I redid the usb drive
and then I put it in an old Dell GX260 and it worked.
But for the computers in the cars it did not work, I am thing the BISO
does not support it
What do you think?
Which part did not work? Did you see any interfaces from the 'ifstat'
command in the cars? Did you mean wireless wasn't working or wired
wasn't working? How do you know it didn't work?

- Shao Miller

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