 | | From: | Rick Silvers | | Subject: | PXE boot problem on ES3 | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 14:07:08 -0800 |
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 | Hello, I am having a problem setting up pxe to boot diskless clients on
Red Hat ES3. I have dhcpd, pxe and tftp running. I am trying to boot
a single diskless client to a Linux OS. The dhcpd part works with no
problems. I get the ip address and the client displays:
Loading vmlinuz....
Loading my_initrd....
Uncompressing Linux.......... Ok, booting the kernel.....
And it just hangs after that.
It starts in.tftpd on the server for transfering my-root-fs.gz .
I did an strace against the in.tftpd instance running on the server I
get get the following output:
select(1, [0], NULL, NULL, {543, 700000}
the two numbers (543 and 700000} change but I am not sure what that
means. I have updated tftp-server and syslinux to the latest versions
but still the same issue.
I know the files vmlinuz, my_initrd and my-root-fs.gz in /tftpboot are
good as I have put them on a Unixware server running bootp and have no
issue with booting the diskless client to Linux.
Thanks in advance
Rick Silvers
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| | From: | Rick Silvers | | Subject: | Re: PXE boot problem on ES3 | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 14:56:37 -0800 |
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| additional information:
the keyboard lights "caps lock" and "scroll lock" just blink on the
keyboard when it stops at the "booting the kernal" message
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| | From: | Rick Silvers | | Subject: | Re: PXE boot problem on ES3 | | Date: | 18 Jan 2005 17:17:02 -0800 |
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| figured it out. the variable for the server that the client was to get
it's image from was not being passed to tftp in the my-initrd file
system, linuxrc file
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