[Soekris] net4521 boot problem

dinakar dinakar31 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 9 11:13:08 UTC 2006


forgot to mention that :
got some improvement during bootup :


> boot f0

NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
All rights reserved.

Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation


CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C4 64 28
CLIENT IP: 192.168.0.127  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.0.76
GATEWAY IP: 192.168.0.1
PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout
PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout
PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout
PXE-M0F: Exiting MacPhyter PXE ROM.

No Boot device available, enter monitor.


comBIOS Monitor.   Press ? for help.

>



On 12/9/06, dinakar <dinakar31 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - which tftpd program are you using
> I am on redhat9 and installed tftpd from it's CDs
> [root at localhost root]# tftp -V
> tftp-hpa 0.32, without readline
> ---------------------------------------------
> > - the contents of dhcpd.conf
> [root at localhost root]# cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
> ddns-update-style none;
> default-lease-time 600;
> option domain-name-servers 202.56.215.6;
> max-lease-time 7200;
>
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0{
>
> }
>
> host soekris{
>        hardware ethernet 00:00:24:c4:64:28;
>        fixed-address 192.168.0.127;
>        option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>        option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
>        option routers 192.168.0.1;
>        filename "pxelinux.0";
> }
> ---------------------------------------------
> > - the contents of [x]inetd.conf or the the tftpd 'default' file
> [root at localhost root]# cat /etc/xinetd.conf
> #
> # Simple configuration file for xinetd
> #
> # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/
>
> defaults
> {
>        instances               = 60
>        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
>        log_on_success     = HOST PID
>        log_on_failure          = HOST
>        cps                     = 25 30
> }
>
> includedir /etc/xinetd.d
>
> ===and====
>
> [root at localhost root]# cat /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
> {
> disable=no
> socket_type=dgram
> protocol=udp
> wait=yes
> user=root
> #server=/usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> # /usr/sbin/in.tftfp  file is not present in my system and hence replaced
> it
> # with [/usr/bin/tftp] in below line. Don't know if this is right step or
> not !!
> server=/usr/bin/tftp
> server_args=-s /tftpboot
> per_source=11
> cps=100 2
> flags=IPv4
> }
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> > - the contents of pxelinux.cfg/{default,ip} file
> [root at localhost root]# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
> SERIAL 0 19200
> DEFAULT vmlinuz console=ttyS0,19200n81 root=/dev/nfs
> nfsaddrs=192.168.0.127:192.168.0.76:192.168.0.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0
> nfsroot=192.168.0.76:/nfsroot/debian panic=10
> IPAPPEND 1
> ---------------------------------------------
> > I tried running tftpd-hpa from /etc/inetd.conf, but it gave trouble (it
> > did show the TFTP prompt though). So I run it as a daemon instead, and
> > evrything works fine:
> >
> > /etc/default/tftpd-hpa:
>
> I don't have this file in my machine, Can I create it with the
> commonds given by u ? ----------------------------------------------
> > #Defaults for tftpd-hpa
> > RUN_DAEMON="yes"
> > OPTIONS="-l -s /tftpboot"
> > #OPTIONS="-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot"
> >
> >
> > As another fine example of what can go wrong (and of my own stupidity at
> > that time), I once set the wrong serial port in the PXE config, and
> > everything booted as it should have, except I never knew..
>
> I didn't try anything extra except for the ones given in
> http://www.cheapnet.net/~mike/soekris/
>
>
> Regards,
> Dinakar
>



-- 
Regards,
Dinakar
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