[K12OSN] LTSP 4.4.1 client booting fails

[Mikko Jordman]

I don't understand (very much) about pxe-booting, but for some reason I 
have had
this same problem with two 4.4.1 servers (home and work): after installing
webmin and after manipulating users with it, pxe-booting fails.

(I noticed the problem with my home server just a few days a go, because I
mainly use pcmcia-clients at home, which are booting with 
wireless_ltsp, so not
getting kernel from the server.

Don't know what or why, only the symptoms. And that I have to study my Linux.
Until now I have been able to use K12LTSP without really knowing anything.)

Mikko Jordman
Headmaster on Kartanonkoski Comprehensive School
Vantaa
Finland

Lainaus Hung Phan <phanh at canby.k12.or.us>:

> I'm using K12LTSP 4.4.1 (Fedora Core 4) with Neoware C50 thin client.
> The server obtain IP through DHCP (and it works) and serve out  
> through eth2 (because eth0 inboard is dead, it is Intel Pro 100  
> eepro100 card)
>
> The client cannot boot, it keep running tftp......until it timeout.  
> When the client boots, I run tail -f /var/log/messages. It shows the  
> client obtain an IP, and eventually timeout with PXE.
>
> Check tftpd, it's running. Check xinetd.d/tftp, nothing changes in  the file.
>
> When I check the default kernel at /tftpboot/lts/pxe, it doesn't  
> exist. Only the kernel with options compiled 2.4.9-1-kitchen-sink
>
> I know the thin client works because we test it with different server 
>  before.
>
> Can anyone offers some advices, please?
>
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