@abjr said:
Can anyone else confirm that netboot.xyz does not work with Virmach anymore.
I've tried on multiple VPS with multiple distributions.
Kernel is fetched, initrd is fetched, and then it just loops right back to the menu.
just use grub to boot. it hasn't been working for long time
Are you suggesting grub can do a network install? This is news to me.
@abjr said:
Can anyone else confirm that netboot.xyz does not work with Virmach anymore.
I've tried on multiple VPS with multiple distributions.
Kernel is fetched, initrd is fetched, and then it just loops right back to the menu.
@abjr said:
Can anyone else confirm that netboot.xyz does not work with Virmach anymore.
I've tried on multiple VPS with multiple distributions.
Kernel is fetched, initrd is fetched, and then it just loops right back to the menu.
I can confirm. I haven't had time to figure it out, I know some people talked about it earlier and I had a ticket about it with useful information from several months ago that I have to review as I think people already figured it out.
@abjr said:
Can anyone else confirm that netboot.xyz does not work with Virmach anymore.
I've tried on multiple VPS with multiple distributions.
Kernel is fetched, initrd is fetched, and then it just loops right back to the menu.
Dark mode support, courtesy of AI going through all our CSS and figuring out the specific overrides, plus a bit of work on my end tuning it. Doesn't look great, I'm going to have it refine the CSS to look a little less slapped together. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
The continue button doesn't really do anything right now but it's a placeholder for some security we're adding as I think there must have been a recent new password dump somewhere that people are using to log into accounts. A lot of ideas for it, so we're going to start collecting some additional information on logins, then maybe disable credit cards or linked PayPal in some situations, prevent logins in others, and an extra layer of protection other than captcha for bruteforces. We might also re-introduce email second factor but a light version that only activates itself temporarily if you haven't logged in for a year plus or something like that.
Lumen connected. Cabinet will be fully set up mid-week with the router, switch, and a few servers. So we're still on schedule, only thing that changed is Cogent is delayed and Lumen is early.
@taizi said:
what datacenter is it? i barely heard who selling Oklahoma server,because the network will route to dallas first,and the price also higher than dallas
Depends.
As for routing to Dallas first, I assume you mean if it has to get to the west coast. I know of a transit provider that has a 60G direct route to San Jose, it's just way too expensive. If we expand the location out, or other providers become interested, we could add that. About 2-3x the price of Lumen which is already several times the price of Cogent. They also have a direct route to Chicago. So if we do that, it would 100% be faster than Dallas at least to San Jose. I think it's already faster to Chicago.
Compared to Dallas around 5 years ago, yes, it would have been more expensive. I'm sure there might be some datacenter left in Dallas that's still cheap but all the ones I know got acquired, and due to cheap power Dallas kind of got oversaturated and now those same facilities that maybe cost $800 for the same thing cost $2400.
We're at 7725 W Reno.
Right now we have direct connections to the following cities/areas:
Kansas. Goes to Colorado (and ends up in California)
Missouri. Goes to Illinois
Texas. Goes to East/West Coast
Oklahoma (Tulsa, has some other carriers and routes like north Texas to Colorado)
Arkansas. Goes to Tennessee --> Kentucky/Virginia--> DC/New York
We also have the "better" route to Kansas, as in not just the one that goes to Kansas City, but also the one that goes straight north to Wichita and then to Denver. I think this also makes it faster to Denver than Dallas. As a result there's also a small chance it's faster to Seattle than Dallas. I don't remember but I think in testing, it was a bit faster.
It does also use pretty unique routes to certain places so maybe could be better (or worse, let's say different) during any congestion.
To San Jose, it's pretty equal right now.
Plus there's a potential route to Los Angeles that'd likely be faster in the future. They're finally doing it, work expected to be completed 2026 (so probably 2027-2028 since everything usually gets delayed.)
@abjr said:
Can anyone else confirm that netboot.xyz does not work with Virmach anymore.
I've tried on multiple VPS with multiple distributions.
Kernel is fetched, initrd is fetched, and then it just loops right back to the menu.
just use grub to boot. it hasn't been working for long time
Are you suggesting grub can do a network install? This is news to me.
@Linux said:
Is anyone able to use netboot to do a reinstall? When I try it netboot downloads the ISO but then goes back to the initial ISO selection screen (I think it can't find the storage device).
I ran in to that. Can't remember if it was the version or what. I have notes on how I worked around it. I'll see if I can find them.
@Linux said:
Is anyone able to use netboot to do a reinstall? When I try it netboot downloads the ISO but then goes back to the initial ISO selection screen (I think it can't find the storage device).
I ran in to that. Can't remember if it was the version or what. I have notes on how I worked around it. I'll see if I can find them.
Every time I come back here I have to clear out a preloaded essay I was writing.
Okay, so an update on Oklahoma: ready tomorrow (for us.) A few other things pushing into eachother but I'm pretty determined to at least plant the router there as soon as it's ready.
We came to Los Angeles and wanted to hang out with VirmAche.
However, it seems that they have moved.
This is 1600 Sawtelle Blvd, but unit 308 shows as vacant.
@yoursunny said:
We came to Los Angeles and wanted to hang out with VirmAche.
However, it seems that they have moved.
This is 1600 Sawtelle Blvd, but unit 308 shows as vacant.
The buzzer for 308 still goes to my phone for some reason. Any time you want to put in an emergency ticket you know what to do.
I don't know if I let you guys know, but my car was having some issues that just got resolved (hopefully permanently-ish) as of about 10 minutes ago. Going to head to the DC in about 30 minutes to an hour. It's the weekend and the staff did leave a note, but there's a small possibility I won't be able to access the package room that has the router. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Then if it does go well, I'll start moving servers in. Best case scenario, we'll have at least one server set up on SolusVM and the location placed in stock (without IPv6 right now for anything on SolusVM.)
And I'll probably mess with VirtFusion tomorrow and get a more interesting server set up for that, with IPv6. The customer dedicated servers will be mostly Ryzen 5500 (instead of planned 2600 to 3800X.) However, those may mostly wait for the second cabinet and I might focus on getting less power efficient configurations set up for the first cabinet as it has a lot of power. So dual E5's, dual Gold, and Epyc. The provisioning for those won't be done until at least after Monday, likely mid-week.
Finally, we'll try to have a nice sale by the end of the month. The sale will be geared towards higher configurations, think 4GB to 64GB RAM virtual servers, but also some smaller Ryzen plans.
Network - IX will likely be ready on Monday. I don't know if that means we'll have it set up Monday. Cogent is still TBD.
Okay good news, I got in and was able to grab our packages.
Some bad news I’ll get into later if I can’t think of a quick solution but for now wish me luck, I’m about to try to get the 5U router at the very top of this 48U cabinet.
(Edit)
I owe you guys a lot of rack photos from the past so I’ll make it up to you, behold, an empty MX240. I’m going to go grab something to put underneath it before the shelf snaps.
Comments
https://netboot.xyz/docs/booting/grub/
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Been a few months since I installed using netboot on Virmach but worked last time, try this:
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/176076/#Comment_176076
What are those?!
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Yo Virmach, how's OKC coming up?
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I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
I can confirm. I haven't had time to figure it out, I know some people talked about it earlier and I had a ticket about it with useful information from several months ago that I have to review as I think people already figured it out.
If anyone remember, let me know please.
Thanks
Dark mode support, courtesy of AI going through all our CSS and figuring out the specific overrides, plus a bit of work on my end tuning it. Doesn't look great, I'm going to have it refine the CSS to look a little less slapped together. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
The continue button doesn't really do anything right now but it's a placeholder for some security we're adding as I think there must have been a recent new password dump somewhere that people are using to log into accounts. A lot of ideas for it, so we're going to start collecting some additional information on logins, then maybe disable credit cards or linked PayPal in some situations, prevent logins in others, and an extra layer of protection other than captcha for bruteforces. We might also re-introduce email second factor but a light version that only activates itself temporarily if you haven't logged in for a year plus or something like that.
Lumen connected. Cabinet will be fully set up mid-week with the router, switch, and a few servers. So we're still on schedule, only thing that changed is Cogent is delayed and Lumen is early.
what datacenter is it? i barely heard who selling Oklahoma server,because the network will route to dallas first,and the price also higher than dallas
Depends.
As for routing to Dallas first, I assume you mean if it has to get to the west coast. I know of a transit provider that has a 60G direct route to San Jose, it's just way too expensive. If we expand the location out, or other providers become interested, we could add that. About 2-3x the price of Lumen which is already several times the price of Cogent. They also have a direct route to Chicago. So if we do that, it would 100% be faster than Dallas at least to San Jose. I think it's already faster to Chicago.
Compared to Dallas around 5 years ago, yes, it would have been more expensive. I'm sure there might be some datacenter left in Dallas that's still cheap but all the ones I know got acquired, and due to cheap power Dallas kind of got oversaturated and now those same facilities that maybe cost $800 for the same thing cost $2400.
We're at 7725 W Reno.
Right now we have direct connections to the following cities/areas:
We also have the "better" route to Kansas, as in not just the one that goes to Kansas City, but also the one that goes straight north to Wichita and then to Denver. I think this also makes it faster to Denver than Dallas. As a result there's also a small chance it's faster to Seattle than Dallas. I don't remember but I think in testing, it was a bit faster.
It does also use pretty unique routes to certain places so maybe could be better (or worse, let's say different) during any congestion.
To San Jose, it's pretty equal right now.
Plus there's a potential route to Los Angeles that'd likely be faster in the future. They're finally doing it, work expected to be completed 2026 (so probably 2027-2028 since everything usually gets delayed.)
But
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Congrats on the new ASN!
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Is it good or bad?
so good.
It's ColonCrossing remake.
No hostname left!
OK. Yes. I thought you were alluding so something else. I've done this with LILO in the past. Tested out on Virmach and it does work.
Wonder if it has anything to do with grub using linux16 / initrd16
many thanks, working fine for me
Excellent, glad I could help.
Every time I come back here I have to clear out a preloaded essay I was writing.
Okay, so an update on Oklahoma: ready tomorrow (for us.) A few other things pushing into eachother but I'm pretty determined to at least plant the router there as soon as it's ready.
VIIIIIRRMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH
Virtfuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusion
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
We came to Los Angeles and wanted to hang out with VirmAche.
However, it seems that they have moved.
This is 1600 Sawtelle Blvd, but unit 308 shows as vacant.
No hostname left!
The buzzer for 308 still goes to my phone for some reason. Any time you want to put in an emergency ticket you know what to do.
Heard that you (as in singular) were on your way!
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
NVMe2G for life! until death (the end is nigh)
OKC Update
I don't know if I let you guys know, but my car was having some issues that just got resolved (hopefully permanently-ish) as of about 10 minutes ago. Going to head to the DC in about 30 minutes to an hour. It's the weekend and the staff did leave a note, but there's a small possibility I won't be able to access the package room that has the router. I'll let you guys know how it goes.
Then if it does go well, I'll start moving servers in. Best case scenario, we'll have at least one server set up on SolusVM and the location placed in stock (without IPv6 right now for anything on SolusVM.)
And I'll probably mess with VirtFusion tomorrow and get a more interesting server set up for that, with IPv6. The customer dedicated servers will be mostly Ryzen 5500 (instead of planned 2600 to 3800X.) However, those may mostly wait for the second cabinet and I might focus on getting less power efficient configurations set up for the first cabinet as it has a lot of power. So dual E5's, dual Gold, and Epyc. The provisioning for those won't be done until at least after Monday, likely mid-week.
Finally, we'll try to have a nice sale by the end of the month. The sale will be geared towards higher configurations, think 4GB to 64GB RAM virtual servers, but also some smaller Ryzen plans.
Network - IX will likely be ready on Monday. I don't know if that means we'll have it set up Monday. Cogent is still TBD.
Okay good news, I got in and was able to grab our packages.
Some bad news I’ll get into later if I can’t think of a quick solution but for now wish me luck, I’m about to try to get the 5U router at the very top of this 48U cabinet.
(Edit)
I owe you guys a lot of rack photos from the past so I’ll make it up to you, behold, an empty MX240. I’m going to go grab something to put underneath it before the shelf snaps.
@VirMach
I'm liking the rack photos. Interested in seeing how the location will develop over time. 
I want a photo of my VPS!!!
I want more photos right now. I'll submit 3 tickets if you don't.