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AOMEI PXE Boot Tool FAQ

February 22, 2017

How to configure PXE boot service in server-side? AOMEI PXE Boot Tool’s FAQ will answer these questions.

Q: How do I configure PXE service in server-side? How to use PXE function to boot in client-side?

1. A: Run the program to configure PXE service. You can choose «Boot from AOMEI Windows PE system», «Boot from AOMEI Linux system», or «Boot from custom image file». Then click «Start Service» button. If the current system doesn’t have the required environment to create a bootable image file, the program will prompt you to install Windows AIK or ADK.
2. After you have finished configuring server-side, ensure the client-side and server-side both exist in the same LAN and network segment.
3. Check whether DHCP server exists in LAN or not. There must be a DHCP server in LAN. If you don’t have a DHCP server, you can use some software such as TFTPD32 to build it.
4. If the client computer’s motherboard is set to UEFI boot mode, change to legacy BIOS boot mode and enable the PXE boot option in BIOS.
5. Restart the client computer to start up the system through the network booting.

Notes:

• Optional: Temporarily close all firewalls, including Windows firewall and third-party program firewall before running the feature.
• Optional: You may be prompted that some ports are in use by other programs, when starting the PXE service. To check enter the CMD command prompt, and separately type:

netstat -aon|findstr «67», netstat -aon|findstr «69», netstat -aon|findstr «4011» to check if the 67, 69, 4011 ports of server-side are in use by another program.

If so, please type tasklist|findstr «PID» to find out which processes are using these ports, and then manually end the processes using theses ports.

Q: In a few cases when using PXE, why does it fail to create a Windows PE bootable image file?

A: Causes may be:

1. The environment required to create a Windows PE bootable image file is not present in the current system. In such case, the program will prompt you to install Windows AIK or ADK, and then restart program to try again.
2. The program is installed in the directory which includes non-English characters. In such case, the program will prompt you that it failed to create Windows PE bootable image file. Please use the «Create Bootable Media» function in AOMEI Backupper to create Windows PE bootable ISO image file, and then store it to the program installation directory. Alternatively reinstall the program into English directory, or install the language pack in current system related to the non-English characters included in the installation directory.
3. A bug has occurred. Please use «Create Bootable Media» function in AOMEI Backupper to create a Windows PE bootable ISO image file, and then store it to the program installation directory. Alternatively use other software to create bootable ISO image file, such as AOMEI PE Builder, or select a bootable ISO image file you have already created.
4. If the «Create Bootable Media» function in server-side program is running, creating Windows PE bootable image file in the PXE function will fail. Please wait until the progress of «Create Bootable Media» in server-side program is completed, and then continue with the operation in the PXE function.

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How to Use AOMEI PXE Boot Tool

AOMEI PXE Boot software is designed for solving the problem that boots many computers from microsystem in the network. Generally, you can create a Windows PE micro system with a third party tool.

Introducing PXE Boot

Usually, when a computer fails to boot, the method to resolve this is using a bootable CD, DVD or USB memory stick, which may contain a Linux based boot image or a Windows PE boot image. When we need to install or run software on too many computers, for example, there are 100 computers that need to have system installed or run on, it becomes impractical and very time consuming to do this machine by machine. In this case, there also be machines that do not have a CD drive or cannot boot from a USB device.

What is the easiest way to solve this problem?

In such a scenario, the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool can provide the solution. The only thing you should do is to run the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool on one computer (maybe a server) within the LAN, and boot other computers (some clients or target computers) on the network.

About AOMEI PXE Boot Tool

The AOMEI PXE Boot Tool can boot many computers on the network from a centralized boot image held on the designated server machine. Broadly speaking, You can create a Windows PE boot image using AOMEI PE Builder software or with a third party tool, also, you can easily create a bootable Linux image or Windows PE image file with the tool provided within AOMEI Backupper.В

You can use the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool and make other clients or target computers boot from these images. After booting, you can backup, restore or maintain the client machines with tools offered with the image file.

IMPORTANT COMPATIBILITY NOTES

To use a PXE boot, each client computer must have:

1. A network card (NIC) capable of «Wake on LAN» mode.

2. The network card must support PXE booting.

3. A wired Ethernet connection to the network (WI-Fi wireless networking is not supported).

The Advantages of the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool

Comparing with other PXE tools standard features, AOMEI PXE Boot Tool offers additional useful features:

The AOMEI PXE Boot Tool can directly create a Linux bootable ISO or Windows PE bootable ISO image file. Alternatively, you can create a bootable ISO file by using the AOMEI Backupper -> Utilities -> Create Bootable Media option.

If you want to use powerful Windows PE image with desktop, you can create an ISO file with AOMEI PE Builder, which is freeware offered by AOMEI, and then, you can use it with AOMEI PXE Boot Tool.

You don’t need to deploy other plug-ins or programs. Just install AOMEI Backupper and you have access to this powerful network administration feature

How to use the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool?

Start AOMEI PXE Boot Service

Step 1. Install AOMEI Backupper on a server or PC that can boot normally. Select “Tools” and then select “AOMEI PXE Boot Tool”.

Step 2. Choose the one of the Preboot Execute Environment to start your PC.

Three Options:

Boot from AOMEI Windows system: This is a recommended option, so the tool helps you to easily create a Windows PE system image for network boot.

Boot from AOMEI Linux system: This option can be useful for booting older or Linux based computers on the network.

Boot from a custom image file: You can load the special micro-system created by AOMEI PE Builder or Bart PE.

Step 3. After clicking “Start Service”, the AOMEI PXE Boot Tool will configure related data automatically and start the service to wait for target computers.

Setting Clients within LAN for Network Boot

Set client computers within LAN for network boot.

Power onВ theВ client computer while repeatedly pressingВ the required keyВ to enter the computer’sВ BIOS (usually,В the F2 or Del keys, but this depends on the PC manufacturer, so please check the documentation if needed), then enable “Network Boot” in the BIOS setting. If your computer is UEFI compatible, please make sure legacy boot mode is enabled.

Restart the client computer and enter the BIOS/UEFI screen in the same way as described above.

TheВ following steps describe how to configureВ PXE network boot.

Boot mode selection
Click Bios Features -> CSM Support -> Boot Mode Selection, and press Enter in “Boot Mode Selection” and a pop-up window will appear, and you should choose “UEFI and Legacy” or “Legacy Only”.

Enable the PXE boot option
Choose “LAN PXE Boot Option ROM” with down arrow, and turn its status from “Disabled” to “Enabled”.

Set the PXE option as the first boot device
You can select “Boot Option # 1” in “Boot Option Priorities”, and then select “Realtek PXE B02 D00” as well as press Enter.

Alternative to setting the first boot device
You can also reboot the computer and hit a key (may be F12 or F11), then a window will pop-up below, and then select the first boot device: “Realtek PXE B02 D00” and press Enter.

Finally, you can see the following screenshot, this means your computer is booting from PXE over the network. You may need to wait for a few minutes depending on the speed of the network and the size of the bootable image file.

Tips:

It may take a few minutes for the PXE boot process to complete.

All computers requiring PXE boot mustВ be on the same network.

If there are many computers using PXE boot, the network speed may be impacted. It may be advisable to divide the PXE boot clients into smaller groups to boost network performance.

The AOMEI PXE Boot Tool can support booting UEFI machines currently but only the WIM file can be used for UEFI (not the ISO file). If the file is an ISO file, then it is suggested the computer boot mode is changed to “Legacy Boot Mode”.

The AOMEI PXE Tool contains a DHCP server that can be used if an existing DHCP server is not available. DHCP is usually offered by the LAN router.

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When you use AOMEI PXE tool or AOMEI Image Deploy to do some operations, you need to get into BIOS to set your client computers to boot from network. And then, the client computers will boot from network.

Set client computers within LAN for network boot, here set GIGABYTE BIOS as an example:

Enter BIOS:

Start up clients computers, then press specific hotkey to enter BIOS (usually, hotkey is F8 or DEL, and it depends on what computer model you use).

Set boot mode for UEFI BIOS:Click Bios Features -> CSM Support -> Boot Mode Selection, and press Enter in “Boot Mode Selection” and a pop-up window will appear, and you should choose “UEFI and Legacy” or “Legacy Only”. (If your BIOS does not UEFI, you can ignore the step).

Enable the PXE boot (Network boot) option

Choose “LAN PXE Boot Option ROM” with down arrow, and turn its status from “Disabled” to “Enabled”. (Note: Network boot is also called PXE boot).

Set the first boot device:

Set the PXE option as the first boot device. You can select “Boot Option # 1”in “Boot Option Priorities”, and then select “Realtek PXE B02 D00” as well as press Enter.

Alternative to setting the first boot device:

You can also reboot computer and hit a key (may be F12 or F11), then a window will pop-up below, and then select the first boot device: “Realtek PXE B02 D00” and press Enter.

Finally, you can see the following screenshot, this means your computer is booting from PXE network. You may need to wait for a few minutes depending on the speed of network and the size of bootable image file.

Video:

For more about setting network boot, you can refer to here:

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Easy to boot your computers without bootable media.

Better Solution of Backup and Restore:

AOMEI PXE Boot Tool

PXE is the short for «Preboot Execute Environment». AOMEI PXE Boot Tool is designed for solving the problem that boots many computers from micro system in network. Broadly speaking, you can create a micro system with a third party tool. Also, you can do a bootable Linux image or Windows PE image file with the tool offered by AOMEI Backupper. You can use AOMEI PXE Boot Tool and make other clients or target computers boot from these micro system. After booting, you can backup, restore or maintain system with tools offered with Windows PE micro system.

In a nutshell, AOMEI PXE Boot Tool is a good way to boot computers. It provides a lot of help when a large number of computers on the LAN need to back up or restore the system.

The features of AOMEI PXE Boot Tool

Strong Compatibility

Compared with other PXE boot tools, AOMEI PXE Boot Tool supports bootable micro-system created by you, and it doesn’t require to deploy other plug-ins or programs. Thus, Linux bootable ISO or Windows PE bootable ISO can be loaded by AOMEI PXE Boot Tool , you can easily maintain the computers within LAN through network with your micro-system.

Lifetime Upgrades

You’re entitled to upgrade for FREE to any later new versions that we release after you buy. No annual billing or renewal cost.

Easy Interaction

Special designed for network boot, easy interaction and uses it in two steps.

• Install AOMEI PXE Boot to a master computer, select an image file and start service.
• For the client computers need to be maintained from network boot, set its BIOS boot mode as «Network boot».

Combination with PE Builder

If you want to use powerful PE micro system with desktop, you can create ISO file with AOMEI PE Builder , which is freeware offered by AOMEI, and then, you can load image file created by AOMEI PE Builder with AOMEI PXE Boot Tool to boot computer and maintain it.

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Many computers need to be maintained.

A cybercafГ© or enterprise buys many computers, which are bare metal, If you are a manager in charge of installing or maintaining system on those computer, maybe you have to consider use AOMEI PXE Boot Tool to boot computer.

A lack of CD/DVD/USB

If you want to install Windows on multiple computers, CD/USB will be the first choice, but if you don’t have these devices, what should you do? AOMEI PXE Boot Tool can help you boot computer easily without bootable media.

Other situations within LAN

If There are many computers connecting to LAN, AOMEI PXE Boot Tool allows you boot image file in network to maintain or manage computer.

AOMEI PXE Boot Tool for Better and Easier System Maintenance

PXE Boot Tool is not only an independent tool, but also a kind of utility in AOMEI Backupper.

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