<div>Did you try issue mount nfs pkcentos:/opt/ltsp/i386 on the system that is failing? In your mail, you state that problematic system is trying to mount root to "system:/opt/ltsp/i386"</div> <div>Make sure that your dhcp server is pointing to the correct ltsp server - in your case this should always be pkcentos </div> <div>On 5/8/07, Paul Karrel <<a href="mailto:pkarrel@trentu.ca">pkarrel@trentu.ca</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi I need help solving a pxe problem, the pc starts the pxe; the dialog passes by, I can see the NIC has obtained the an IP from the dhcp server ;on the pxe host monitor one sees ip=<a href="http://192.168.2.21:192">192.168.2.21:192</a>.168.2.6:<a href="http://192.168.2.1:255">192.168.2.1:255</a>.255.255.0; these are correct 1) next TFTP prefix lts/pxe {which exits as subdirectries under tftpboot } now the problems start the pxe program tries to find pxelinux.cfg/default this folder & file exits /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg ;; ls -Z /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/default shows -rw-rw-r-- root root default regardless on the pxe host monitor is the prompt boot: if I typevmlinuz.ltsp root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=initramfs.gz; the os starts to load creating new ramdisk to hold our root fs mounting root file system:/opt/ltsp/i386 {as specified in dhcp} input : ps/2 genric mouse as /class/input/input1 mount : unknown host mount: nfsmount failed: no such file or directory mount: mounting /opt/ltsp/i386 on newroot/nfsroot failed:invalid argument now I can go to another pc & issue mount nfs pkcentos:/opt/ltsp/i386 /mnt with no problem {pkcentos is the hostname of the ltsp } and view ths contents I can use nslookup pkcentos and that resolves to <a href="http://192.168.2.6">192.168.2.6</a>. I have turned selinux & the firewall off. Any suggestions would be welcome tail of messages May 8 17:19:33 pkcentos xinetd[2297]: START: tftp pid=7225 from=<a href="http://192.168.2.21">192.168.2.21</a> May 8 17:34:33 pkcentos xinetd[2297]: EXIT: tftp status=0 pid=7225 duration=900(sec) Paul Karrel 705 2771082 trent university _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Regards, Conrad Lawes PXE Guru