netboot.xyz

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Bootloader Downloads

EFI Boot Loaders

Type	Bootloader	Description
ISO	netboot.xyz-efi.iso	Same as ISO (Legacy) but used for EFI BIOS, works in Virtual Box EFI mode
USB	netboot.xyz-efi.usb	Used for creation of USB Keys
DHCP	netboot.xyz.efi	DHCP EFI boot image file, uses built-in iPXE NIC drivers
DHCP-snp	[netboot.xyz-snp.efi]()	DHCP EFI boot image file, use if you have NIC issues... need to build

Legacy Boot Loaders

Type	Bootloader	Description
ISO	netboot.xyz.iso	Used for CD/DVD, Virtual CDs like DRAC/iLO, VMware, Virtual Box (Legacy)
Floppy	netboot.xyz.dsk	Used for 1.44 MB floppies, Virtual floppies like DRAC/iLO, VMware, Virtual Box
USB	netboot.xyz.usb	Used for creation of USB Keys
Kernel	netboot.xyz.lkrn	Used for booting from GRUB/EXTLINUX
DHCP	netboot.xyz.kpxe	DHCP boot image file, uses built-in iPXE NIC drivers
DHCP-undionly	netboot.xyz-undionly.kpxe	DHCP boot image file, use if you have NIC issues

SHA256 checksums are generated during each build of iPXE and are located here. You can also view the scripts that are embedded into the images here.

What is netboot.xyz?

netboot.xyz is a convenient place to boot into any type of operating system or utility disk without the need of having to go spend time retrieving the ISO just to run it. iPXE is used to provide a user friendly menu from within the BIOS that lets you easily choose the operating system you want along with any specific types of versions or bootable flags.

If you already have iPXE up and running on the network, you can hit netboot.xyz at anytime by typing:

chain --autofree https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.lkrn

or when in EFI mode:

chain --autofree https://boot.netboot.xyz/ipxe/netboot.xyz.efi

This will load the appropriate netboot.xyz kernel with all of the proper options enabled.

Documentation

See netboot.xyz for all documentation. Some links to get started with are:

• Downloads
• Booting Methods
• FAQ

If you'd like to contribute to the documentation, the netboot.xyz documenation is located at netboot.xyz-docs.

Self Hosting netboot.xyz

For those users who want to deploy their own netboot.xyz environment, you can leverage the same scripts that are used to deploy the hosted environment. The source scripts are all ansible templates and can be generated and customized to your preference.

With Ansible

To generate, run:

ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml

The build output will be located in /var/www/html by default.

With Docker

docker build -t localbuild -f Dockerfile-build .
docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/buildout localbuild

The build output will be in the generated folder buildout

Local Overides

Ansible will handle source generation as well as ipxe disk generation with your settings. The disk generation was worked on a while back so it needs work to catch it up to the existing state of netboot.xyz.

If you want to override the defaults, you can put overrides in user_overrides.yml. See file for examples.

Also note many user customizations are located in the boot.cfg file for the IPXE menus. A high level of customization can be achieved using our stock build output and hosting this along with the menus locally.

Self Hosted Custom Options

In addition to being able to host netboot.xyz locally, you can also create your own custom templates for custom menus within netboot.xyz. Please see Custom User Menus for more information.

What Operating Systems are currently available on netboot.xyz?

Operating Systems

Name	URL	Installer Kernel	Live OS
Alpine Linux	https://alpinelinux.org	Yes	No
Arch Linux	https://www.archlinux.org	Yes	No
BlackArch Linux	https://blackarch.org	ISO - Memdisk	No
CentOS	https://centos.org	Yes	No
Debian	https://debian.org	Yes	Yes
Devuan	https://devuan.org	Yes	No
Elementary OS	https://elementary.io	No	Yes
Fedora	https://fedoraproject.org	Yes	Yes
Flatcar Linux	https://www.flatcar-linux.org	Yes	No
FreeBSD	https://freebsd.org	No, disk image	No
FreeDOS	http://www.freedos.org	ISO - Memdisk	No
Gentoo	https://gentoo.org	Not Working	No
IPFire	https://www.ipfire.org	Yes	No
Kali Linux	https://www.kali.org	Yes	Yes
Mageia	https://www.mageia.org	Yes	No
Manjaro	https://manjaro.org	No	Yes
Mint	https://linuxmint.com	No	Yes
Microsoft Windows	https://www.microsoft.com	User supplied media	No
MirOS	https://www.mirbsd.org	Yes	No
NixOS	https://nixos.org	Yes	No
OpenBSD	https://openbsd.org	Yes	No
OpenSUSE	https://opensuse.org	Yes	No
Parrot Security	https://www.parrotsec.org	ISO	No
Pop OS	https://system76.com/pop	No	Yes
RancherOS	https://rancher.com/rancher-os	Yes	No
Red Hat Enterprise Linux	https://www.redhat.com	User supplied media	No
Scientific Linux	https://scientificlinux.org	Yes	No
Slackware	https://www.slackware.com	Yes	No
Tails	https://tails.boum.org	No	Yes
Tiny Core Linux	https://tinycorelinux.net	ISO - Memdisk	No
Ubuntu	https://www.ubuntu.com	Yes	Yes

Utilities

Name	URL	Installer Kernel	Live OS
ALT Linux Rescue	https://en.altlinux.org/Rescue	ISO - Memdisk	-
Breakin	http://www.advancedclustering.com/products/software/breakin/	ISO - Memdisk	-
Clonezilla	http://www.clonezilla.org/	ISO - Memdisk	-
DBAN	http://www.dban.org/	ISO - Memdisk	-
GParted	http://gparted.org	ISO - Memdisk	-
Grml	http://grml.org	ISO - Memdisk	-
Memtest	http://www.memtest.org/	Yes	-
Super Grub2 Disk	http://www.supergrubdisk.org	ISO - Memdisk	-
Ultimate Boot CD	http://www.ultimatebootcd.com	ISO - Memdisk	-

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