If tftp-server is not yet installed, run yum install tftp-server.
In the tftp-server config file at /etc/xinet.d/tftp, change the disabled parameter from yes to no.
Start the xinetd service, and enable it to persist across reboots:
systemctl start xinetd
systemctl enable xinetd
systemctl status xinetd
Configure your DHCP server to use the boot images packaged with SYSLINUX. (If you do not have a DHCP server installed, refer to the DHCP Servers chapter in the Fedora System Administrators Guide.)
A sample configuration in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf might look like:
option space pxelinux;
option pxelinux.magic code 208 = string;
option pxelinux.configfile code 209 = text;
option pxelinux.pathprefix code 210 = text;
option pxelinux.reboottime code 211 = unsigned integer 32;
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
option routers 10.0.0.254;
range 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.253;
class "pxeclients" {
match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";
next-server 10.0.0.1;
if option arch = 00:06 {
filename "pxelinux/bootia32.efi";
} else if option arch = 00:07 {
filename "pxelinux/bootx64.efi";
} else {
filename "pxelinux/pxelinux.0";
}
}
host example-ia32 {
hardware ethernet XX:YY:ZZ:11:22:33;
fixed-address 10.0.0.2;
}
}
You now need the pxelinux.0 file from the SYSLINUX package installed with Fedora. Create a pxelinux directory within tftpboot and copy pxelinux.0 and vesamenu.c32into it:
mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux
cp /usr/share/syslinux/{pxelinux.0, vesamenu.c32} /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux
Create a pxelinux.cfg directory within pxelinux:
mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg
Add a config file to this directory. The file should either be named default or named after the IP address. For example, if your machine's IP address is 10.0.0.1, the filename would be 0A000001.
A sample config file at /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg/default might look like:
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 1
timeout 600
display boot.msg
label linux
menu label ^Install or upgrade an existing system
menu default
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases
/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/
label vesa
menu label Install system with ^basic video driver
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img xdriver=vesa nomodeset repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org
/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/
label rescue
menu label ^Rescue installed system
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img rescue
label local
menu label Boot from ^local drive
localboot 0xffff
label memtest86
menu label ^Memory test
kernel memtest
append -
If both the stage 2 installer image and the package repositories you intend to download from are on the same server, use the repo= boot option. If they are on separate servers, use stage2= instead.
Copy the boot images into your tftp root directory:
cp /path/to/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux/
Reboot the system, and select the network device as your boot device when prompted.
