It might be time to consider using Linux boot image instead of DOS-based
images.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi community,
>
> since more than one week I try now to boot my client via PXE.
>
> More informations about my equipment:
>
> Client:
>
> Board ASUS K8V-X SE Amibios with BIOS Revision 1501 (newest)
> Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
>
>
> Server:
>
> Tyan Tomcat K7M Board with Eisfair 1.6.1 (www.eisfair.org)
>
> With exactly the same hardware unattended boots where working for more
> than one year
> perfectly without any trouble.
>
>
>
>
> INETD.CONF regarding PXE:
>
> START_TFTPD = yes
> TFTPD_ADD_ARGS =
>
>
>
>
>
> DHCPD.CONF (only PXE part)
>
> DHCPD_PXE_N = 1
> DHCPD_PXE_1_NAME = test
> DHCPD_PXE_1_ACTIVE = yes
> DHCPD_PXE_1_KERNEL = unattended/memdisk
> DHCPD_PXE_1_INITRD =
> DHCPD_PXE_1_ROOT =
> DHCPD_PXE_1_APPEND = initrd=unattended/fetnd.imz
>
> I also tried the options "raw" and "bigraw" at the end of the append
> line, without
> success.
>
> fetnd.imz is the correct .imz file that works with my client. I tried
> this out with a
> floppy disk and everything was working.
>
>
> Generated (by my dhcp server) default file:
>
> #
> # Do not edit this file, edit /etc/config.d/dhcpd
> # Creation date: Wed Aug 5 22:44:43 CEST 2009
>
> DEFAULT test
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 150
> DISPLAY pxelinux.cfg/boot.msg
> F1 pxelinux.cfg/boot.msg
>
> LABEL test
> KERNEL unattended/memdisk
> APPEND initrd=unattended/fetnd.img
>
>
> S Y M P T O M S:
>
> When my client boots it gets an IP from my DHCP Server. Then it starts
> pxelinux.0.
>
> Then the following happens:
>
> Loading memdisk.............
> Loading fetnd.imz...........
> Ready
>
> This happens when i Use MEMDISK 3.36.
>
> When I use newer MEMDISK version (I tried until 3.83-pre6) the same
> messages appear, but
> then the PC reboots itself and does this in an endless loop.
>
> So two possibilities:
>
> * freezing after "Ready"
> * rebooting after "Ready"
>
> I absolutely dont know what is going on here and I tried everything. I
> believe that all
> of my settings are correct, and think it must have to do with memdisk.
>
> AGAIN: It worked already with the same hardware....no changes
>
> If you have any futher questions regarding hard- or software details
> please tell me and I
> will post it here.
>
> Hopefully we can fix this problem....it really sucks :)
>
> regards
> Bernd
>
>
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