Cisco PXE Configuration

The Fluid OS is easily installed in any environment that supports PXE booting, that is, has a running DHCP server and access to a TFTP sever to boot the Fluid image.

Fluid is constructed into two major booting components, the immutable operating system and the iPXE bootloader. The iPXE image generated on demand from the Fluid cloud console by defining a PXE Boot Key in your environment.

The iPXE can then be parsed as a configuration option to your local iPXE environment. An example iPXE file downloaded from Fluid might look like this:

#!ipxe

iseq ${platform} efi && goto fluid_efi || goto fluid_bios

:fluid_efi
chain --replace --autofree http://boot.fluidhq.io/pxe/d809580c-457f-4380-8632-549091d361ff/default/ipxe.efi

:fluid_bios
chain --replace --autofree http://boot.fluidhq.io/pxe/d809580c-457f-4380-8632-549091d361ff/default/undionly.kpxe

Your PXE server can be configured one of two ways: 1) Download the undionly.kpxe and ipxe.efi files found in your iPXE file above and upload it directly to your TFTP server running on your Cisco device 2) Download iPXE from https://ipxe.org and upload the iPXE files along with the Fluid iPXE config file to your TFTP server.