[K12OSN] Trouble with PXE Boot; Fedora 17

Fri Jan 25 22:11:48 UTC 2013

Radek,

Thanks for the note. Yes, I saw that note as well, but I also remember reading somewhere that LTSP works on fedora 17 (or there is hope for it). Plus, LTSP is in the fedora 17 repository, so I would have expected it should work. Unfortunately, for a number of reasons I cannot use CentOS. 

If you provide the centos version of ltsp-server-tweaks and can send me the directory where vmlinuz.ltsp resides (is it a link to something else?) that might be a good start.

I hope I can get this thing working soon!

Thanks

adrin

On Jan 25, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Radek Bursztynowski wrote:

> Adrin,
> 
> K12Linux installation instruction
> (https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/InstallGuide) says:
> "Fedora 15+ WILL NOT WORK". I don't know is this Fedora status changed.
> 
> I recomend you CentOS 6.3.
> 
> Best regards,
> Radek
> ---
>> Hello; I'm new to LTSP and generally a novice to Linux.  I installed
>> all LTSP-related packages using Fedora 17's Add/Remove Software (GUI).
>> I then followed the instructions on the k12linux site.
>> 
>> 
>> 1) Everything on the server side installed "properly", except for step
>> 8: there is no ltsp-server-tweaks on my system. I don't know if this
>> is relevant to my problem or not. Anyway, I'd appreciate a hint as to
>> where I can download and install  ltsp-server-tweaks
>> 
>> 
>> 2) The client setup step failed because I'm running F17. If there are
>> instructions I can follow to successfully complete the latter, I'd
>> really appreciate the link. (I'm using the workstation only as a
>> server, and I have a fairly powerful diskless thin/zero client, which
>> I just purchased for remote computing purposes)
>> 
>> 
>> 3) My system is 64-bit (and so is F17). Is there any reason ltsp
>> defaults to 32-bit even though there are x86-64 ltsp directories/files
>> as well?  Is there a way to just stick with x86-64?
>> 
>> 
>> 4) The main reason for this thread, which I assume/hope is independent
>> of the above three "issues", is the fact that trying to PXE boot via
>> the Virtual Machine fails (so does PXE booting from the diskless
>> client, of course) with the message "No DEFAULT or UI configuration
>> directives found!".  The following are the last few lines before the
>> error message, and googling the latter didn't turn up anything useful
>> for me:
>> 
>> 
>> (text in brackets are my comments)
>> 
>> 
>> [IP address is assigned]
>> BOOTIF= [hexadecimal numbers]
>> SYSUUID= [hexadecimal numbers]
>> TFTP prefix: /ltsp/i386/
>> Trying to load:  pxelinux.cfg/default   ok
>> No DEFAULT or UI configuration directives found!
>> boot:  [blank space]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The following is the content of the "default" file
>> 
>> 
>> prompt 0
>> label linux
>> kernel vmlinuz.ltsp
>> append rw initrd=initrd.ltsp selinux=0 root=dhcp quiet rhgb
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The following are the relevant ifcfg files
>> 
>> 
>> [root at vortex network-scripts]# more ifcfg-p1p1
>> UUID="36f1f167-eeef-45ad-9a03-9a1567b985a7"
>> NM_CONTROLLED="no"
>> BOOTPROTO=none
>> DEVICE="p1p1"
>> ONBOOT="yes"
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> DEFROUTE="yes"
>> IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> NAME="System p1p1"
>> HWADDR=10:BF:48:07:6F:6C
>> BRIDGE=ltspbr0
>> USERCTL=yes
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [root at vortex network-scripts]# more ifcfg-ltspbr0
>> # Sample Configuration for Initscript Driven Bridge
>> # Put this into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ltspbr0
>> #
>> # Warning: Deleting ifcfg-ltspbr0 alone to disable ltspbr0 will cause
>> you
>> # problems, because it will come back the next time you upgrade the 
>> # ltsp-server package. 
>> #
>> # Comment out these two lines to disable ltspbr0.
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> IPADDR=172.31.100.254
>> 
>> DEVICE=ltspbr0
>> TYPE=Bridge
>> BOOTPROTO=static
>> STP=off
>> DELAY=0.1
>> USERCTL=no
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>> ARP=yes
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much, in advance, for helping me get started
>> 
>> 
>> adrin
>> 
>> 
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