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WhenUsersets“CSMParameters‐>Network”asUEFIand“NetworkStack”asEnabled,thePXEchoosing
itemislistin“BootOptionPriorities”,pleasechooseBootOptiontosetsequencepriorityofUEFIIPV4PXE
LANport
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WhenUEFIIPV4PXEdoesn’tdetectUEFIPXEserver,itwillreturntoBIOSmanual.
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PXEbootusuallydoesnotallowforOSinstallationovernetworkasthePXEclientwillonlyloadasinglefile
fromthebootserver.Similarly,bootingLinuxovernetworkisusuallyatwostageprocess.Inthefirststep,a
bootloadersuchagruborminiOSsuchasSysLinuxareloadedviaPXEfromthebootserver.Thebootloader
orminiOSthenloadtheactualtargetOSwhichusuallyconsistsofmultiplefileswhichdecompressedand
installedintoaRAMdisk.Thedetailedprocessandrequiredconfigurationofsuchnetworkinstallwillheavily
dependonthetargetOSandbootloader/miniOSused.Pleaserefertotherelateddocumentation
available.
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PXEbootrequiresaDHCPserverandaTFTPserverinthenetworktocomplete.DHCPServerandTFTPserver
arecommonlyrunonthesamemachineandcollectivelyreferredtoas“bootserver”.Settingupsuchaboot
serverimpliesacoupleofsteps.How‐toguidesforsettingupLinuxasPXEbootserverareavailableonthe
internet,e.g.
https://www.debianadministration.org/article/478/Setting_up_a_server_for_PXE_network_booting.
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Pleasenotethatitisrecommendedtosetupaseparatenetwork/subnetfornetworkbootingas
theDHCPrequiredforPXEbootingmayconflictwithexistingDHCPserversinyournetwork.
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