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PXE Problem

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by gw1500se, 2015/10/19.

  1. 2015/10/19
    gw1500se

    gw1500se Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    First a little background so we don't wind up going down the wrong path. I have an HP Elite 8000 Ultra Slim which I am trying to boot via PXE. Originally I had a Linux server on which I set up a PXE boot server. The HP booted and worked fine. So I know PXE works properly on that HP.

    I no longer have that PXE server so I am stuck with a Windows 7 machine on which I have installed TFTPD. I believe I have it set up correctly at least based on my Linux knowledge which far exceeds my Windows. The HP gets properly assigned a DHCP address and the TFTPD log says it has sent the PXE menu, however, the HP just hangs and never displays that menu. I am stuck trying to figure out how to debug this. I cannot find anything that I can configure in TFTPD that gives me more detail in its log.

    Can someone help me figure out at way to debug this. TIA.

    P.S. I also tried CCBOOT but the documentation is very poor and I have no idea how to set up the PXE cfg file as there appears to be no place to create or specify one.
     
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  2. 2015/10/20
    TonyT

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    Which TFTPD did you install on win7?
     
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    gw1500se Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    As I said in the original post, it worked fine when I was using a Linux PXE server.
     
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    TonyT

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    My guess is there's something on the windows 7 that is blocking it. Possibly the windows firewall. Or possibly dhcp dies. Try a static ip.
     
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  8. 2015/10/21
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    gw1500se Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Windows firewall is turned off. I'll give the static IP a try. Thanks.
     
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  9. 2015/10/25
    gw1500se

    gw1500se Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    No joy with static IP.
     
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  10. 2015/10/26
    TonyT

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    saw this at another forum:

    When booting to PXE from my laptop everything works fine when booting from a brand new HP8200 Elite workstation getting PXE-E51. Both as it turns out have the same nic so it shouldn't be a drive issue.
    What i did notice is that the HP8200 has PXE-2.1 built 090, my laptop has built 089.
    From what ive seen so far a lot of people are having various issue with PXE built 090.

    Found a solution.
    Downgrade to Bios version 2.09 from HP.
    Able to PXE Boot now.

    Others upgraded the bios to later versions.
     
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    gw1500se Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Since I also can't get the PC to recognize a bootable USB drive, I don't know how to downgrade the BIOS. I(n any case I know this PC will boot via PXE as I have done it when I had the Linxu PXE server. It is the Windows PXE server that I can't seem to set up correctly. I've decided to seek help from the TFTPD forum.
     
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