[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart failing

[Corey Kovacs]

You need to install the syslinux package. I can't remember if
pxelinux.0 gets put into the right place but if not do a ..

rpm ql syslinux|grep pxelinux.0 and copy the file into /tftpboot/

-C

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Sean Laurent <sean at studyblue.com> wrote:
> Heh. Yeah, I had picked up on that. :)
> I guess the real questions are: why isn't pxelinux.0 in there? Who was
> supposed to put it there? And where should it come from?
> I followed the CentOS instructions
> at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk and it doesn't
> say anything about copying anything into /tftpboot. So either something
> failed or I'm missing a step... :)
> Suggestions?
> Thanks.
> -Sean
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Kennedy, Ryan <rkennedy at paml.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well… you’re `ll` of /tftpboot shows that there is no pxelinux.0 file.
>> That is why TFTP can’t get it.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Sean Laurent
>> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:32 AM
>> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Kickstart failing
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to get my first kickstart for CentOS 5.5 working via PXE boot
>> against a Spacewalk 1.1 server running on CentOS 5.5. Sadly, I'm running
>> into problems. When I launch the PXE boot on the machine, it gets an IP
>> address, contacts the spacewalk server and promptly fails with:
>>
>>
>>
>> PXE-T01: File not found
>>
>> PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - File not Found
>>
>>
>>
>> My DHCPd config includes:
>>
>>
>>
>> filename "pxelinux.0";
>>
>> next-server 192.168.100.34;
>>
>>
>>
>> 192.168.100.34 is definitely the IP address of the spacewalk server.
>> Strangely enough, I don't see pxelinux.0 in the tftp folder:
>>
>>
>>
>> # ll /tftpboot/
>>
>> total 20
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 30 10:41 etc
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 4 root root 4096 Sep 30 10:41 images
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 30 10:41 ppc
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 30 10:41 pxelinux.cfg
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 30 10:41 s390x
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but any advice would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Sean
>
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