pixie

PXE Boot server setup

Debian packages

dnsmasq
syslinux-common
syslinux-efi
pxelinux

1. Clone this repository to /srv/tftp/
2. Run setup.sh in /srv/tftp/
3. Copy dnsmasq.conf to /etc/dnsmasq.conf
4. Restart dnsmasq

Runs in proxy mode, so you don't even have to have control over your dhcp server

Operating Systems

Supports Debian and OpenBSD by default, though you'll need to get the pxeboot and bsd.rd files for amd64 and i386 yourself.

Other operating systems should be easy to add, just follow the format of the .menu files and add a new entry in menu.cfg

EFI

EFI support works, but probably requires a version of syslinux >>= 6.04 to work around redzone bug solved by this patch

x86_64 EFI requires that all sources are compiled without red zone,
which is not supported by the Windows ABI.

Without this, syslinux crashes on some UEFI implementations.

Acknowledgements

Heavily based on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro and https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX-Multi-Arch