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sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:19 AM

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looking it up, it seems like this is being slow? the file I'm using to start the process is not that big (68.4 KB)

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:19 AM

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try installing ipxe and copying /usr/share/ipxe/x86_64/ipxe.efi to the tftp directory mentioned in the tutorial

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:20 AM

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I'm not using EFI

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at all

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so I skipped that part

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bruh I am never gonna use EFI on this

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:26 AM

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alright, i take it you copied /usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.pxe in that case?

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:26 AM

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for note, this is in a VMware VM

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:26 AM

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tawny nest alright, i take it you copied /usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.pxe in that case?

no I did not

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:28 AM

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alright, copy that over and create a menu liike te guide says and see if you can at least drop to the ipxe shell

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:29 AM

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just into the root

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?

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nevermind, it doesn't exist

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:31 AM

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yeah, just create the /tftpboot boot dir

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:31 AM

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I have that

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already

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I already had all the files set up

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or at least I thought

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:34 AM

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k, just make sure the dnsmasq config points to ipxe.pxe and not the one mentioned in the guide, then restart dnsmasq and lets see where wej're at

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:34 AM

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I don't have a ipxe.pxe

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I'm gonna have to code that myself aren't I

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:35 AM

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your ipxe server is arch? should be able to just pacman -S ipxe and it will provide that file in /usr/share/ipxe/ipxe.pxe

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:36 AM

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fedora

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and I tried Fedora's eqviliant

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and iPXE doesn't exist

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or I'm just not adding the correct 72 dashed addons

tawny nest Apr 26, 2025, 4:40 AM

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eh, just grab it from upstream https://ipxe.org/download and run the make bin/undionly.kpxe command to get the image

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:48 AM

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building now I think

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BRUH

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the fuck does this error even mean

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i give up

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I should have figured trying to do iPXE

orchid ether Apr 26, 2025, 4:57 AM

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netboot?

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:57 AM

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might as well have never worked

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:58 AM

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orchid ether netboot?

tried, failed

orchid ether Apr 26, 2025, 4:58 AM

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.aw netboot

prisma lightBOT Apr 26, 2025, 4:58 AM

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orchid ether .aw netboot

Netboot

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Netboot

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:58 AM

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im not even

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should I just not

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I should just not

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[WHY BOTHER] iPXE doesn't show anything

orchid ether Apr 26, 2025, 4:59 AM

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sacred bone tried, failed

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1hsxs31/arch_linux_netboot/

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sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 4:59 AM

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I AM NOT TRYING TO BOOT ARCH

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ARCH IS NOT ON MY SYSTEM AT ALL

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next time I wanna do something like this I'll use vibe coding

orchid ether Apr 26, 2025, 5:02 AM

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sacred bone I AM NOT TRYING TO BOOT ARCH

this may be of use still
https://github.com/netbootxyz/netboot.xyz

GitHub

GitHub - netbootxyz/netboot.xyz: Your favorite operating systems in...

Your favorite operating systems in one place. A network-based bootable operating system installer based on iPXE. - netbootxyz/netboot.xyz

sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 5:02 AM

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I'll try it

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doubt it'd work, but whatever

orchid ether Apr 26, 2025, 5:08 AM

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sacred bone doubt it'd work, but whatever

I recall videos and guides telling how to netboot

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it takes a while but it's possible

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.s litany

prisma lightBOT Apr 26, 2025, 5:09 AM

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orchid ether .s litany

Please follow the Standard Litany when asking a question:
• What was your environment? What was your operating system, configuration?
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• What actually happened? What were the exact results, complete log contents, exact error messages?
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sacred bone Apr 26, 2025, 5:23 AM

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another way I'm dumb, cool

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I'll add that to the list

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