MENU LABEL ESXi-5.x.x-XXXXXX-full ^Installer
LABEL hddboot
LOCALBOOT 0x80
MENU LABEL ^Boot from local disk
7
Rename the
isolinux.cfg
file with the MAC address of the target host machine:
01-
mac_address_of_target_ESXi_host
. For example,
01-23-45-67-89-0a-bc
8
Boot the machine with the network adapter.
PXE Boot the ESXi Installer Using gPXE
You can PXE boot the ESXi installer using gPXE.
See also
“About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,”
on page 144 and
“About the boot.cfg File,”
on page 154
Prerequisites
Verify that your environment has the following components:
n
The ESXi installer ISO image downloaded from the VMware Web site
n
HTTP Web server that is accessible by your target ESXi hosts
n
DHCP server configured for PXE booting:
/etc/dhcpd.conf
is configured for client hosts with a TFTP
server and the initial boot file set to
gpxelinux.0/undionly.kpxe
. See
“Sample DHCP Configuration,”
on page 130.
n
Server with a hardware configuration that is supported with your version of ESXi. See the Hardware
Compatibility Guide at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
.
n
gPXELINUX
n
(Optional) ESXi installation script. See
“About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,”
on page 144.
Use a native VLAN in most cases. If you want to specify the VLAN ID to be used with PXE booting, check
that your NIC supports VLAN ID specification.
Procedure
1
Copy the contents of the ESXi installer ISO image to the
/var/www/html
directory on the HTTP server.
2
Modify the
boot.cfg
file with the information for the HTTP server.
Use the following code as a model, where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the HTTP server IP address. The
kernelopt
line is optional. Include that option to specify the location of the installation script for a
scripted installation.
title=Loading ESX installer
kernel=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/tboot.b00
kernelopt=ks=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/esxi_ksFiles/ks.cfg
modules=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/b.b00 --- http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/useropts.gz ---
http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/k.b00 --- http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/a.b00 ---
http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/s.v00 --- http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/weaselin.v00 ---
http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/tools.t00 --- http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/imgdb.tgz ---
http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/imgpayld.tgz
3
gPXE boot the host and press Ctrl+B to access the GPT menu.
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