I am trying to learn about PXE today and seem to be getting close as a client gets an
IP and seems to get the pxelinux.0 file, but thats as far as it gets and the client
seems to fail with a "Cannot find PXE_BOOT_ITEM" right after "Intel Linux DBP" I have
been reading docs and help files all day and everything "seems" to be configured
correct but no cigar?
Here are the relavent files.
DHCP and TFTP Server (Penguin)
dhcp.conf:
ddns-updates on;
option time-servers 192.168.1.1;
option ntp-servers 192.168.1.1;
option routers 192.168.1.1;
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1 , 198.80.55.1 , 198.161.156.1;
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
allow bootp;
allow booting;
group {
next-server Penguin; # name of your TFTP server
filename "pxelinux.0"; # name of the bootloader program
host pxeclient {
hardware ethernet 00:50:eb:1b:1e:4c;
fixed-address 192.168.1.20;
}
}
And on Penguin, the DHCP and TFTP Server, in the /tftpboot folder I have the following
files
initrd.img
pxelinux.0
vmlinuz
And in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg folder I have the following config files:
default
C0A8010F (hex converions of 192.168.1.20)
initrd.img
vmlinuz
And the contents of default and C0A8010F is:
default ks
prompt 0
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks=nfs:192.168.1.3:/mnt/RedHat/Kickstart/8.0/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img
Which is for a kickstart configuration that works fine booting from a floppy.
And output from syslog on Penguin when booting the client is:
Mar 1 16:46:46 Penguin dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.20 (192.168.1.3) from
00:50:eb:1b:1e:4c via eth0
Mar 1 16:46:46 Penguin dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.1.20 to 00:50:eb:1b:1e:4c via eth0
Mar 1 23:46:46 Penguin in.tftpd[20394]: RRQ from 192.168.1.20 filename pxelinux.0
Mar 1 23:46:46 Penguin in.tftpd[20394]: tftp: client does not accept options
Mar 1 23:46:46 Penguin in.tftpd[20395]: RRQ from 192.168.1.20 filename pxelinux.0
Any help or suggestions would really be appreciated.
Thanks
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