Stuck at PXE boot

W4RH4WK · 2012-08-03 14:10:54

Hello there,
i recently found out about the new arch installation media, which is really great. The graphical installer used in the past versions was crab in comparison to the little install scripts arch uses currently.

I also like the simple way to install arch via pxe, I do a lot of installation through pxe so I tried this out immediately. I downloaded the "ipxe.lkrn" file from https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/ and put it on my tftp server. I also added the needed lines to syslinux boot loader so i can select the entry easily

LABEL Arch
    KERNEL arch/ipxe.lkrn

But when i try to boot the kernel via PXE (i used a virtual box to test it out) i get stuck at fetching http://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/boot/pxelinux.0

It looks like this

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According to the pxe manual page (where i got the kernel from),

The first stage of the download can be extremely slow

... but really, i wait for about 1h and nothing happened. the 25% text pops up right after the download has started (not even a second after). The machine is not completely stuck, i can cancel the download with ^C which leads the whole pxe boot to fail of course.

Can somebody give me advice why the installation is stuck here, and what i can do to fix it. I'd really like to install arch linux via pxe without having to setup NFS or something like that. Just a simple image / kernel i can directly boot via pxe which will grab all needed files from the internet. (Like Debian does)

nomorewindows · 2012-08-03 23:39:49

You used to be able to do this with boot.kernel.org, but not anymore.
pxelinux.0 isn't the kernel, and you can only use it if you have an actual pxe installation available which I don't think is there at releng.archlinux.org.
You have to install your own pxe setup and yes it does use NFS.
If you are using qemu you don't even need the ipxe, it is already included with qemu.

Last edited by nomorewindows (2012-08-03 23:42:16)

W4RH4WK · 2012-08-03 23:49:23

so, going back to the wiki, and coming back once again. does this guide still work with the current version?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PXE
this guide tells me to just copy over the contents of the installation disk to my tftp directory. it doesn't say i need NFS

nomorewindows · 2012-08-04 00:48:18

Maybe not with the archboot installation iso for NFS, and the contents come from this CD.
With the installation CD, you could probably do that, but not with an actual running installation from pxe.
You have to add some extra arguments to qemu to get it to use what you have in your tftpd directory.

W4RH4WK · 2012-08-04 02:08:12

so, then what about this page https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/#kernelimage ?

how should this work / what am i doing wrong / what am i missing? It was mentioned in the recently posted news, so i guess it's up-to-date.

any ideas?

nomorewindows · 2012-08-04 10:34:10

You only need this ipxe if your network card doesn't already have a pxe stack.
To actually get a working pxe setup, you need this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_NFS_root

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#1 2012-08-03 14:10:54

Stuck at PXE boot

#2 2012-08-03 23:39:49

Re: Stuck at PXE boot

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#4 2012-08-04 00:48:18

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#5 2012-08-04 02:08:12

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