[Spacewalk-list] Kickstart failing

[Sean Laurent]

Thanks. That brought me one step closer, but I'm still not quite there.
Copying pxelinux.0 from the installed syslinux package got me past the TFTP
error, but now I get another error right after the download:

Could not find kernel image: menu

Any suggestions?

-Sean

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mean,,,
>
> rpm -ql syslinux|grep pxelinux.0 and copy the file into /tftpboot/
>
> I missed the "-" key :)
>
> -C
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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