[K12OSN] Re: K12OSN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

[Daniel Button]

Paul,

    I just was playing with this a couple of weeks ago.  Unfortunately,
I am not near my system to give all the particulars.  I found that I
needed to add a couple of lines in the /etc/dhcpd.conf to make sure that
pxe could function properly.  I also had to make sure that the pxe
script was starting up correctly.  Check that the dhcpd.conf has entries
in it to allow for booting.  Make sure that /etc/pxe/pxe.conf is looking
like it will work in your environment.

    I hope this points you in the right direction.  I am sorry that I
can not give you more details.

Dan



On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:25, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:


> 
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 10:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
> From: pnelson at riverdale.k12.or.us
> Subject: [K12OSN] [Fwd: Re: K12LTSP boot problem]
> To: k12osn at redhat.com
> Message-ID:
> 	<32899.200.145.158.170.1083606069.squirrel at riv-mail.mesd.k12.or.us>
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> 
> >On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:36, Oscar Erbetta wrote:
> > > dear Paul: I liked the idea of thin clients to fedora, so yesterday I
> >have
> > > downloaded and installed the K12LTSP-4.0.1 (4) isos in a fresh machine,
> >with
> > > only an eth0 (192.168.53.254 - no internet access), with no problem.
> everything worked fine.
> > >
> > > I'm using a DELL Latitude, with pxe boot as the only client (for now),
> >but
> > > after a the initial loading process, the boot displays "could not find
> kernel image".
> 
> 
> Oscar, I'm going to forward this to the K12OSN group so we can all see how
> to troubleshoot something like this.
> 
> 1. The client get's an ip address.
> 
> 2. It does not get a kernel
> 
> 3. The /etc/dhcpd.conf file is the default K12LTSP file.
> 
> 4. The ip address of the server is 192.168.0.254
> 
> 5. The line in dhcpd.conf is:
> 
> option root-path              "192.168.0.254:/opt/ltsp/i386";
> 
> 6. The files needed in /opt/ltsp/i386 really are there.
> 
> 7. /tftpboot/lts/pxe/pxelinux.cfg exists and is default.
> 
> NFS is running "service nfs status"
> 
> 8. /etc/exports file is default/opt/ltsp/i386           
> 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
> /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,async)
> 
> So if all this is true, why won't the client boot? What did we miss?
> 
> ;-) Paul
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 10
> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 13:24:27 -0500
> From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] [Fwd: Re: K12LTSP boot problem]
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools."
> 	<k12osn at redhat.com>
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> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 12:41, pnelson at riverdale.k12.or.us wrote:
> 
> > 8. /etc/exports file is default/opt/ltsp/i386           
> > 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,sync)
> > /var/opt/ltsp/swapfiles   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,async)
> > 
> > So if all this is true, why won't the client boot? What did we miss?
> > 
> 
> First guess: the PXE boot code doesn't work.  Have you tried an
> etherboot floppy?   Dell is very good about keeping support
> updates on-line forever so you can probably find a flash bios
> update if that is the problem (and I've seen it on old
> Optiplex GX1's).
> 
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
> 
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