Creating a PXE Server

[schmidtbag]

I own a Beagleboard-xm, and it's a platform I've had a lot of bad luck with, but was a little too pricey for me to just throw away.

I was thinking a perfect use for it would be to create a PXE server and effectively replace all my bootable discs with 1 device, and maybe also use it as a backup storage service.

The PXE guide on the arch wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PXE
is pretty straight-forward, but it implies an x86 system because it requires syslinux to work, which ARM doesn't use and therefore doesn't exist as a package.

I've never made a PXE server before, let alone any networked server (except samba, ssh, and mySQL). What I'd like to know: is it possible to get a working PXE server out of ARM and if so, what is the simplest solution? A link to a modern guide would be nice. Even if it's only meant to work with 1 ISO at a time, I can work with that.

Thanks.

[hydro]

I am not sure I understand what you are going to achieve, but the guide you refer to should also work on ARM devices. You will be able to PXE-boot i686/x86_64 computers from it. The bootloader/kernel/filesystem delivered to the clients must match the clients architecture.

[mpadilla2]

Try my guide here.