PXE boot disks

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:37:12PM -0400, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> 
> > ...
> >   filename "/tftp/pxelinux.0";
> > }
> >
> > My current /tftp (/tftpboot) tree looks like the following:
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root 2443013 Jun 16 09:56 initrd-fc2.img
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 Jun 16 10:28 ks
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root   12952 Jun 16 10:08 pxelinux.0
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    4096 Jun 16 10:33 pxelinux.cfg
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1209805 Jun 16 09:56 vmlinuz-fc2
> 
> If your tftp server is configured to serve files from the /tftp
> directory, you should have filename "pxelinux.0"
> --
> 
> Michael - 
> 
> Thanks for your response, I made the change and tested it remotely using
> a tftp client and do see the pxelinux.0 there and can successfully grab
> it. Also tested the dhcpd to ensure it truly is working. That all works,
> so now to figure out why the client isnt being told or isnt listening to
> dhcpd when being instructed about the PXECLIENT stuff, as in the
> following:
> 
> group {
>   # option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEClient";
>   next-server 10.10.232.54;
>   filename "pxelinux.0";
> }
> 
> But never seems to get that information nor tftp the bootloader.

For testing, just remove the 'group {' and matching '}'. 
I just have the next-server and filename lines as the first two 
in de dhcp conf file.

-Marcel
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