pxeboot(8) - Linux man page
Name
pxeboot - Network Booting Operating Systems Configuration Utility
Syntax
pxeboot [OPTION] [Hostname | IP Address | Subnet]
Description
This is a command line tool for configuring PXE boot files.
Options
- -a, --add
- add a new PXE Boot file.
- -m, --modify
- modify a PXE boot file
- -d, --delete
- delete a PXE boot file
- -l, --list
- list all PXE boot files
- -s, --serial
- Use serial console on client
- -S, --snapshot <snapshotname>
- Use alternate name for diskless snapshot directory
- -e, --ethernet <ethernet device>
- Use this ethernet device to mount diskless directories
- -N, --nisdomain <nisdomain>
- specify NIS domain to be used by the installation/diskless kernel
- -K, --kickstart <kickstartfile>
- specify the location of the kickstart file, this should be specified as a kernel parameter.
- -r, --ramdisk <size>
- specify the size of ramdisk to be used by the installation/diskless kernel
- -O, --os <Operating System>
- specify the operating system description as created with pxeos
- -h, --help
- show usage
- Hostname | IP Address
- specify the Hostname or IP Address/Subnet to be used for creation of the PXE boot file.
Files
/usr/sbin/pxeboot
/tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/pxeos.xml
/usr/share/system-config-netboot/*
/tftpboot/linux-install/*
Examples
- pxeboot -l
- List all the pxeboot files
- pxeboot -a -O RHEL-AS-Diskless -r 1000 10.0
- Create a PXEBoot file which will boot a diskless Operating System for any host in the 10.0 subnet
Limitations
This utility configures PXE boot files to be used for network installations or diskless environments.
See Also
system-config-netboot(8) pxeos(8)
Bugs
Authors
Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>