Boot WDS and LTSP with pxelinux External links Options

[awergh]

So I have a Server 2008R2 box with WDS configured to boot into pxelinux so I get a bootmenu.
I also have a Hyper-V VM which is an LTSP server.

Now what I would like is to be able to select WDS or LTSP from the menu but I'm not sure how to configure pxelinux to do that. At the moment the LTSP option doesnt do anything at all

[awergh]

oh no I'm bumping a topic but I wanted to explain it differently or ask something less specific
so I have pxelinux booting from a wds server which gives me a nice menu which I can select stuff from.

This is my working part of the menu

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DEFAULT      vesamenu.c32
PROMPT       0
NOESCAPE     0
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
# Timeout in units of 1/10 s
TIMEOUT 300
MENU WIDTH 40
MENU MARGIN 0
MENU ROWS 12
MENU TIMEOUTROW 14
MENU HSHIFT 5
MENU VSHIFT 2
MENU COLOR BORDER 30;44       #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TABMSG 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR TITLE 1;36;44     #00000000 #00000000 none
MENU COLOR SEL   30;47       #40000000 #20ffffff
MENU BACKGROUND DeploymentBackground.png

MENU TITLE PXE Boot menu
MENU WIDTH 80
MENU MARGIN 18
MENU ROWS 4

LABEL wds
MENU       DEFAULT
MENU PASSWD P@ssw0rd
MENU       LABEL Windows Deployment Services
KERNEL     pxeboot.0

LABEL local
MENU LABEL Boot from Harddisk
LOCALBOOT 0

now what I want to do as well is add a menu to allow me to boot from a bootfile on a separate server which happens to be a Hyper-v VM so far my attempts haven't been the slightest bit successful. The ltsp server has a samba share ltsp where the bootfile is which has guest enabled.

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LABEL ltsp
MENU LABEL Boot LTSP Thin Client *TEST*
KERNEL //11.0.0.24/ltsp/pxelinux.0

Hopefully this elaborates what I want to do a bit more

[Icecube]

PXELINUX doesn't support samba, AFAIK.
PXELINUX only supports TFTP.

You can use gPXE in combination with PXELINUX.
gPXE supports: TFTP, HTTP, iSCSI, AoE (and maybe more)

So you can serve your files from HTTP if you want (will be faster than TFTP).

gPXE: http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php

You probably can get the best help on IRC (#etherboot channel on freenode) or the mailing lists of etherboot.

If you get it working, a follow up with the details would be nice.

[awergh]

I succeeded ! , well mostly

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LABEL ltsp
MENU LABEL Boot Ubuntu 9.10 LTSP Client
KERNEL vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
APPEND ro initrd=initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic quiet splash netroot=nfs nfsroot=11.0.0.124:/opt/ltsp/i386

The problem is there are some reliability issues, It can boot up fine the first time or it can take multiple times because it might get kernel panic or might just restart. I have no idea why it does this though but it mostly works. Only x86 seems to be unreliable but i dunno could be the network card both x86 PCs i were using had Intel PRO 100s which is pretty much what I mostly use.

[Icecube]

You can try to find a better PXE rom for your network card: http://rom-o-matic.net/

[awergh]

I'm not sure its PXE thats the problem, I think the problem is after PXE because it boots into PXE Linux without any trouble its just when I try to boot into LTSP that I have problems sometimes