[Step by step]Redhat 7.3 PXE boot from ethernet



General PXE boot from ETHERNET

[1]. prepareration

1. Install RPMs

yum install dhcp

yum install tftp-server

yum install tftp

yum install ftp

2. configure the firewall

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=tftp

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ftp

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=dhcp

[2].Configure your DHCP server

1.Configure your DHCP server to use the EFI boot images packaged with shim.

vi /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

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;
option architecture-type code 93 = unsigned integer 16;
allow booting;
allow bootp;
subnet 192.168.50.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.50.120 192.168.50.150;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.50.255;
option routers 192.168.50.254;
next-server 192.168.50.101;
class "pxeclients" {
match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient";
if option architecture-type = 00:07 {
#filename "uefi/shim.efi";

filename "uefi/grubx64.efi";
} else {
filename "pxelinux/pxelinux.0";
}
}
}

2. make sure client can ping with server before starting the dhcp service

server: ifconfig eno1 192.168.50.101 up
client:  ifconfig eno1 192.168.50.160 up
ping Ok

3.enable dhcp

systemctl status dhcpd.service
systemctl start dhcpd.service
systemctl enable dhcpd.service

4.check whether dhcp service is available in server.

client:
[1]enter the os, redhat 7.3
[2]Application -> system tools -> setting -> network -> eno1: off->on
eno1 should get the IP from the DHCP now.

[3].configure your tpftboot/uefi/      shim.efi  grubx64.efi      vmlinuz initrd.img       grub.cfg

1.mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi

mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi

2.cope shim.efi/grubx64.efi from CD/Package

cp  CD/Packages/shim-version-architecture.rpm /my_dir
cp  CD/Packages/grub2-efi-version-architecture.rpm /my_dir

Extract the packages:
rpm2cpio shim-version-architecture.rpm | cpio -dimv
rpm2cpio grub2-efi-version-architecture.rpm | cpio -dimv

cp my_directory/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/shim.efi                     /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi/

cp my_directory/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grubx64.efi                     /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi/

3.cope vmlinuz/initrd.img from CD/Package

cp /root/Desktop/rhel73_cd/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz     /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi/
cp /root/Desktop/rhel73_cd/images/pxeboot/initrd.img /var/lib/tftpboot/uefi/

4.Add a configuration file named grub.cfg to the uefi/ directory.

touch a grub.cfg, details in red comment.
configure the inst.repo=ftp://192.168.50.101/pub/rhel7u3x64

set timeout=10
menuentry 'RHEL 7.3' {
  echo "Loading uefi/vmlinuz"
  linuxefi uefi/vmlinuz ip=dhcp inst.repo=ftp://192.168.50.101/pub/rhel7u3x64
  echo "Loading uefi/initrd.img"
  initrdefi uefi/initrd.img
}

5. change the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
service tftp
{
    disable                 = no   
    #默认为yes,改为NO
}

# default: off
# description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer \
# protocol.  The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \
# workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers, \
# and to start the installation process for some operating systems.
service tftp
{
 socket_type  = dgram
 protocol  = udp
 wait   = yes
 user   = root
 server   = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
 server_args  = -s /var/lib/tftpboot
# disable   = yes
 disable   = no
 per_source  = 11
 cps   = 100 2
 flags   = IPv4
}

systemctl status xinetd.service

systemctl start xinetd.service

6. enable tftp

systemctl status tftp.service
systemctl start tftp.service
systemctl enable tftp.service

tftp 192.168.50.101

> get one

> quit

#cat one

[4]configure ftp directory

1.copy linux CD to /var/ftp/pub

cp -r ~/Desktop/rhel73_CD /var/ftp/pub/

2.enable ftp

systemctl status vsftpd.service
systemctl start vsftpd.service
systemctl enable vsftpd.service

3.check whether ftp service is available in server.

test Firefox in server:
ftp://127.0.0.1

pub/redhat7u3x64

[5].PXE boot

try to boot from network

Boot mode -> Next one-time boot -> NetworK

server:
[1] tail -f /var/log/messages        //sytem log
[2] tcpdump -i eno1 tcp port 69     //eno1 is your PXE boot port