[Soekris] net4521 boot problem

[William Estrada]

Dinakar,

  The PXE boot on the Soekris units works very well.  You are getting PXE boot and dhcp to work.
The problem appears to be with the tftp section of the process.

  On your tftp server run tcpdump to see what is happening.  On my system ( FC5 ), dhcp root directory
conf is:
> # dhcpd.conf
> 
> allow booting;
> allow bootp;
> 
> ddns-update-style interim;
> 
> ignore client-updates;
> option domain-name "Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net";
> option broadcast-address 255.255.255.0;
> option domain-name-servers 10.1.1.3;
> option routers 10.1.1.3;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> 
> next-server 10.1.1.12;
> 
> filename "/pxelinux.0";
> 
> subnet 10.1.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 10.1.1.99  10.1.1.200;
>   default-lease-time 86400;
>   max-lease-time 86400; }
  while my tftp conf id:
> [root at Server ~]# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
> DISPLAY pxelinux.cfg/splash.txt
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 40
> Default DSL/linux24
> append  ramdisk_size=10000 rw ip=dhcp initrd=DSL/PXE_initrd.gz
> append  lang=us apm=power-off nfs=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/DSL
> append  console=ttyS0,57600 console=tty0 init=/static/bash
> 

  Notice that dchp reference 'filename "/pxelinux.0";' which is actually '/tftpboot/pxelinux.0'.



William Estrada

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