[Soekris] PXEboot on 4801

[Egbert Jan]

Hi, Patrik. How complete is your dhcp/tftp setup? I myself have a setup (on
Mandriva 2007.1 server) where is made use of several classes of clients. I
have several clients that boot via a netboot floppy and those fall in the
'PxeLinux' class. The Soekris has a native PXE client onboard and falls in
the class PXEClient. This is all encoded in the Vendor Identification that
is requested/send by the client in the initial negotiation. Could it be that
your soekris looks for a file in another class config where the file is not
properly configured? Try looking in the syslog files or specific dhcp/tftp
logfiles.
 
Goodluck hunting this one.
EgbertJan
NL
 
 

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[mailto:soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Patrik Arlos
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:57 PM
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Subject: [Soekris] PXEboot on 4801



Hi,

 

I'm trying to get a 4801 to PXE boot. 

 

I'm using a PXE setup on linux, dhcpd + tftpd server that I know work, I've
used it to install other computers with this setup. 

 

But when I boot the 4801, it gets the information from the dhcp server
correctly, but when it requests the boot image from the tftp server it
requests a filename that is different from the one supplied in the
dhcpd.conf file, and the difference is that it attached the string "M-^?"
(without quotes) to the string, effectively asking fro an non existing file.
Now, I did try to rename the file so that it would match, but to no luck. 

 

Anybody experienced this, and did you find a fix?

 

/Patrik

 

 

 

Patrik Arlos, Ph.D

Dept.Telecommunications systems, School of Engineering

Blekinge Institute of Technology

Phone +46 455 385 444

Mobile +46 733 800 312

 

 

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