PXE boot a Macbook Pro
We have a K2000 box and I have successfully created a Mac OS X 10.8 boot environment. I have also successfully uploaded a Mac OS X 10.8.4 image on there.
Problem: We purchased a new Mac Book Pro with Retina display. These machines do not come with a built in Ethernet port so a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter was purchased. The adapter works fine and picks up a network connection but you cannot PXE boot from the adapter. I also tried a USB to Ethernet adapter but again the same problem.
I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this same problem? Is there a way of PXE booting a Mac Book Pro (with no built in Ethernet)? Maybe there is another adapter out there which supports PXE boot?
Any help much appreciate.
Rennis
Answers (1)
The Apple USB to ethernet adapter is known to work. However, since this is a newer machine than the one you created your netboot environment on, you should try creating a new environment from the MBP Retina machine.
Other than that, what is the failure? Try booting into verbose mode after selecting the netboot environment (command-v) and report what it says.
Corey
Lead L3 Enterprise Solutions Consultant, K2000
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