PXE boot disks

Fri Jun 17 13:30:10 UTC 2005

OK, thanks to Marcel, I have it successfully pulling the pxelinux.0
where its failing now, is at the following:

Jun 16 13:54:40 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:47:11:3c:6b via eth0
Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.10.232.80 to
00:03:47:11:3c:6b via eth0 Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for
10.10.232.80 (10.10.232.54) from 00:03:47:11:3c:6b via eth0 Jun 16
13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.10.232.80 to 00:03:47:11:3c:6b via
eth0 Jun 16 17:54:41 yum1 in.tftpd[9505]: tftp: client does not accept
options Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 10.10.232.231 via
eth0: not authoritative for subnet 10.10.232.0 Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1
dhcpd: If this DHCP server is authoritative for that subnet, Jun 16
13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: please write an `authoritative;' directive either
in the Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: subnet declaration or in some scope
that encloses the Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: subnet declaration - for
example, write it at the top Jun 16 13:54:41 yum1 dhcpd: of the
dhcpd.conf file.
Jun 16 13:54:44 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 10.10.232.231 via eth0: not
authoritative for subnet 10.10.232.0 Jun 16 13:55:47 yum1 dhcpd:
DHCPDISCOVER from 00:03:47:11:3c:6b via eth0 Jun 16 13:55:47 yum1 dhcpd:
DHCPREQUEST for 10.10.232.55 (10.10.1.13) from 00:03:47:11:3c:6b via
eth0: unknown lease 10.10.232.55.
Jun 16 13:55:48 yum1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.10.232.80 to
00:03:47:11:3c:6b via eth0

I can see the server actually loading the bootloader and I can see this
in the messages log now:

Jun 16 14:11:48 yum1 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
10.10.232.80:750 for /repo/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os (/repo)

Actually I am unsure if it is able to find my kickstart config file. The
/repo above is of course the install base (Fedora/images/etc under the
OS tree). Here is my current ks-cf2.cfg file for completeness:

# Kickstart file automatically generated by anaconda.

install
nfs --server=10.10.232.54 --dir=/repo/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/os
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
skipx
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --hostname ag800
network --device eth1 --bootproto dhcp --hostname ag800
rootpw --iscrypted $1$.pio2FpF$qdZBN7oU0oOG6R3oV6y5X.
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/New_York
bootloader --location=mbr --append rhgb quiet
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --linux
part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=101
part /disk2 --fstype ext3 --size=12289
part / --fstype ext3 --size=12289
part swap --size=2048
part /weblog --fstype ext3 --size=1 --grow

%packages --resolvedeps
@ web-server
@ mail-server
@ dns-server
@ dialup
@ network-server
@ sql-server
@ editors
@ admin-tools
@ system-tools
@ news-server
@ smb-server
@ authoring-and-publishing
@ sound-and-video
@ server-cfg
@ graphics
@ ftp-server
@ development-tools
@ engineering-and-scientific
@ text-internet
kernel-smp
grub
e2fsprogs

%post
# The Last Thing happening in Kickstart:
# get a file via TFTP which indicates we are done.
echo "get Kickstart_end" | /usr/bin/tftp 10.10.232.54

Now, when I rebooted this test box this morning, it grabs an IP from the
dhcp server, is able to receive and load the pxelinux bootloader, but in
the virtual console 3 I see the following after it runs through and
loads the kernel:

* NFS install method detected will use Rhupdates/
* Running anaconda script /usr/bin/anaconda
* Display mode=t
* Method = nfs://mnt/source/ .
* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
  ID
  Name
  HorizSync
  VertSync
* anaconda floppy devices is fd0
* Running kickstart %pre scripts
* All kickstart %pre scripts have been run

Which confuses me a little bit as I don't quite understand where its
getting the nfs methof pointing to Rhupdates and some of the other
stuff. As the pxelinux.cfg default file reads as follows:

DEFAULT linux
SERIAL 0,38400n8
LABEL linux
KERNEL vmlinuz-fc2
APPEND ksdevice=eth0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400 load_ramdisk=1
initrd=initrd-fc2.img network ip=dhcp
ks=nfs:10.10.232.54:/tftp/ks-fc2.cfg

Any one have any ideas? 

Thanks for all your help, again, and responses - very helpful.

Michael Weiner

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