Archipel Node Stateless PXE Boot How To Linux Like
Note: FAQ in development. ( Want help ? Edit this file )
Screenshot: PXE Menu Boot
To boot your Servers by PXE with ANSOS you will need:
- Configure a DHCP Server
- Configure a TFTP Server
- Define your ANSOS remote rootfs
- Configure PXE Settings
- Configure mount point to ANSOS per host settings ( host identification and VM Guests archives )
- initrd - initramfs-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64.img
- Vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64
APPEND Options for rootfs
You have 03 options to mount a remote root file system:
- smb shares mount point
- iscsi
- nfs
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DEFAULT menu.c32
PROMPT 0
NOESCAPE 0
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
TIMEOUT 50
menu color border 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title 1;37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg 40;37 #88888888 #00000000 none
menu color sel 1;37;42 #ffffffff #ff808080 none
menu color unsel 1;40;32 #ff00ff00 #00000000 none
# Archipel Boot PXE
LABEL Archipel Boot PXE
MENU Archipel Boot PXE
LINUX memdisk
KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64
APPEND append initrd=initramfs-2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.x86_64.img vmlinuz0 root=live:CDLABEL=archipel-node-image rootfstype=auto ro liveimg nomodeset check rootflags=ro crashkernel=512-2G:64M,2G-:128M elevator=deadline install quiet rd_NO_LVM stateless=1 rhgb rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM BOOTIF=eth0 ip=dhcp hostname=node1 ARCHIPEL_MOUNT_ADDRESS=//ip_smb_server/stateless ARCHIPEL_MOUNT_OPTIONS=user=username,password=password
LABEL local
MENU LABEL Boot Disco Local
LOCALBOOT 0
In order to store data, and be able to conserve information across reboot, ANSOS needs a network share. For now, we strongly suggest to use a CIFS based share (NFS has some bugs preventing sqlite to work properly. But you may want to try). So first of all, create a folder on a server named stateless:
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