I had changed WDS server for Dual deployment Setup of Linux and Windows, But neither the client PXE boot for Linux Deployment nor I could reverse my WDS to run as earlier. While booting client over a PXE. It keep searching for PXELinux.com which has been removed from the path. Kindly tell me how to reverse the setup in WDS server to bring to old state.
the following modifications were done
Windows Deployment Server Modifications
To make this possible, alter WDS to serve up a PXELinux menu with options to either proceed with WDS or jump over to a Linux PXE server:
- Copy the following three files directly to your WDS x64 boot directory, e.g., D:\RemoteInstall\Boot\x64\
- core\pxelinux.0
- modules\pxechain.com
- com32\menu\menu.c32
- Make duplicate copies of these existing WDS files (should already be present in directory above); they need to have “zero” as the extension
- pxeboot.n12 -> pxeboot.0
- abortpxe.com -> abortpxe.0
- Create a directory in x64 named “pxelinux.cfg”
- Create a new text file: x64\pxelinux.cfg\default with the following as a guide:
DEFAULT menu.c32 MENU TITLE WDS PXE Server LABEL wds MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Windows Deployment Services KERNEL pxeboot.0 LABEL abort MENU LABEL Abort PXE Kernel abortpxe.0 LABEL linuxpxe MENU LABEL Linux PXE server... KERNEL pxechain.com APPEND 192.168.4.33::pxelinux.0 #IP address above is Linux PXE host
To activate, run these two commands from a command prompt on the WDS server:
wdsutil /set-server /bootprogram:boot\x64\pxelinux.0 /architecture:x64 wdsutil /set-server /N12bootprogram:boot\x64\pxelinux.0 /architecture:x64
Kindly help.
