Run an Acronis PXE parallel to a another PXE

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Hi @all,

we have got already another pxe server for our linux distributions running in our environment. when we install the acronis pxe server, only the acronis pxe will be shown automatically at the start up of a machine booting with pxe-option.

how can we integrate the acronis pxe into our environment without loosing the option to boot up from the other pxe server?

greets,
jay

Wed, 02/17/2010 - 07:47
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Hello J.Wagner!

Thank you for finding time to open the thread regarding this question, I will be glad to help you.

Unfortunately having two PXE server in one subnet is a tricky thing - your machine will pick up the the one which sent the request earlier. But we have a workaround for it: 

I would advise you to modify your existing PXE, adding there our ramdisk.dat and kernel.dat files: please follow the instructions described in this article.

I would also appreciate if you could kindly keep us updated so that we could provide you with further assistance if needed. Please do not hesitate to leave a comment or contact Acronis Forum Moderator directly in case of any questions regarding the problem - we will be glad to help!

Thank you!

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 13:45
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Hi Yana-

Could you please provide more details on how to make the PXE work from a different server? I am running the PXELinux loader and have placed the kernel.dat/ramdisk.dat on my PXE server. I am able to select them both in the menu and they start booting but I do not think they ever find the Acronis server. What am I missing? They are on the same subnet.

This is a known working Acronis server that I have disabled PXEserver on.

I have attached a screenshot of what it boots to.

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Wed, 09/15/2010 - 14:24
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I found the answer. To those of you having the same problem, you need to add the following to your append:

vga=791 ramdisk_size=32768 acpi=off quiet noapic

Mine now looks like this:
Label acronisdeploy
Menu label Acronis Image Deploy
kernel /Acronis/deploy/kernel.dat
append initrd=/Acronis/deploy/ramdisk.dat vga=791 ramdisk_size=32768 acpi=off quiet noapic

Wed, 09/15/2010 - 14:41