pxe boot on busybox

Eial Czerwacki eial at scalemp.com
Tue Jan 31 08:26:58 UTC 2012


On 01/31/2012 09:48 AM, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 09:21:02AM +0200, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>> I have a image using busybox 1.19.2 which I need it to boot a image from
>> tftpboot server using pxe, does busybox supports it? if so, how can I
>> perform this procedure?
> 
> Are you trying to boot a device into a Busybox environment via PXE? Or
> are you trying to boot a device from a Busybox server via PXE? If the
> former, then yes, you can boot Linux via PXE so you can boot a
> Busybox/Linux system via PXE. If the latter, then Busybox contains a
> DHCP server and a TFTP server, so you ought to be able to use it to boot
> PXE systems. I'm not aware of any step-by-step instructions, but I doubt
> it's any more difficult than any other Linux PXE boot server.
> 
>>>> Dan


Hello Dan,

Thanks for your help, I'll try focusing my question, I have a computer
that boots busybox, it needs to connect to a tftpboot server and get the
boot file.

Eial.


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