This repository contains PXE server that should help in installing, testing and developing operating system and firmware for PXE-capable platforms.

It was inspired by effort required to test PC Engines APU2 platform.

Server runs builds and runs as Docker container which exposes port 69. There is silent assumption that your host doesn't have port 69 used.

git clone https://github.com/3mdeb/pxe-server.git
./init.sh

NOTE: by default init.sh will use ../netboot and ../nfs for pxelinux configuration and nfs files. You can override this behavior by setting NETBOOT_DIR and NFS_DIR, ie.:

NETBOOT_DIR=../my-netboot-dir NFS=../my-nfs ./init.sh

By default if no NETBOOT_DIR set init.sh downloads Debian jessie netboot package and extracts it to ../netboot.

To check server status:

service tftpd-hpa status

If server is not running, it can be started using following command:

service tftpd-hpa start

For debugging purposes tcpdump can be used (displaying connection requests).

apt-get install tcp-dump
tcpdump

For those who want to test APU2 I advise to use 3mdeb/netboot configuration. After finished init.sh as described above. Run:

git clone https://github.com/3mdeb/netboot.git apu2-netboot
rsync -r apu2-netboot ../netboot

Ready to use package can be found here.