TrueNas Scale PXE boot server

[Cristik]

Does anyone have any experience in setting up TrueNAS scale as a PXE boot server?
I readed all old post, but unfortunately can't help me.

The TrueNas is installed as virtual machine(bridge static ip with network access) for testing before be installed on physical one.
I created a pool named "storage"
I created a datasets named "tftproot"
I enabled the TFTP service and pointed to the dataset "tftproot"
Also I enabled the SMB service and pointed to the same dataset "tftproot"
From the windows machine I uploaded the windows 10 files( extracted from ISO image).
The DHCP(windows server with active directory) was setup for option 66( boot server hostname) pointed to the IP address of the truenas server and 67(boot file name) set as "pxeboot.0"
Starting new machine and trying to boot over PXE doesn't work. What I miss...?
Same configuration tested also with core version.
Any advice(yt video) would be appreciated...

 

[unixland]

install netboot.xyz on a server (vm or physical). See instructions on how to do that. Then configure in TrueNAS SCALE a vm, but leave the boot image empty.

start the vm, it will go into the uefi shell. exit that shell, you get a new boot menu; go to boot manager and select PXE boot. Works for me.

 

[vampirebyte]

You can install netboot.xyz as an App from the Community Train.

 

[XxMrTyronexX]

You can install netboot.xyz as an App from the Community Train.

Hey, I am new to TrueNAS,

I have installed netboot.xyz and have configured my router DHCP option 66 to point to the ip address of my nas and 67 to point to netboot.xyz.efi. I have made sure netboot is appearing as the host network in application settings and I have tried to network booting on my PC and a VM and it is not working still.

There are NO tutorials online showing how to setup netboot.xyz on TrueNAS so I am really stuck. I feel like I am missing something obvious, is there any settings that need to be configured on the TrueNAS server or will the default settings work fine? Is there something else I need to configure on my router? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[sretalla]

There are NO tutorials online showing how to setup netboot.xyz

Rubbish...

Meet netboot.xyz - Network Boot Any Operating System

Imagine all of your favorite operating systems in one place, available anywhere on your network, and you'll never need to use your flash drive again. That's...

www.youtube.com

And that's only the one I watched... there are plenty of others.

Also, the docs on netboot.xyz are fine/clear enough. (https://netboot.xyz/docs/)

 

[krischan81]

Despite tutorials being available or not, OP is right, it's not working.
My Notebook tries to connect to the TFTP server but the request is timing out.
Also, I manually tested the TFTP download via curl tftp://<IP>/netboot.xyz.efi and I get a proper response with the filesize, but then it's just timing out (can also provide a PCAP).
Both TrueNAS scale and the PC I tried this with are connected to the router via cable & in the same subnet.
So, any pointers how to troubleshoot this are appreciated.

 

[krischan81]

Never mind, it was a configuration issue on my side