Google "tftp timeout" and you'll get a lot of hits… there's nothing cobbler specific here, most likely, just network related, and things can be intermittent.
Particularly read the timeout info here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/NetworkIssues The portfast issue, in particular, came up a lot. On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Daniel Lollman wrote: > > Hello Siddharth – > > > > > > I tried that and it seems to be working ok! > > > > > > [root@sysA ~]# tftp 172.19.10.200 > > > tftp> get /pxelinux.0 > > > tftp> get /pxelinux.cfg/01-00-00-00-00-00-00 > > > tftp> get //images/CentOS6-x86_64/vmlinuz > > > tftp> quit > > > [root@sysA ~]# > > > > > > Not sure if that helps anything or if I should try to get more. > > > > > > [root@sysA ~]# ls -lah > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Feb 22 12:15 pxelinux.0 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 264 Feb 22 12:16 01-00-00-00-00-00-00 > > > [root@sysA ~]# ls -lah|grep vml > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.8M Feb 22 12:16 vmlinuz > > > [root@sysA ~]# > > > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Siddharth > Deshpande > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:06 PM > To: cobbler mailing list > Subject: Re: [cobbler] Testing cobbler install - pxe tftp open timeout > > > > > > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2012 10:04 PM, Daniel Lollman wrote: > > > Until this morning.. I was working with one system (let’s call it sysA) which > is in a subnet 172.19.10.x. For some reason when this system boots up now it > gets a DHCP address but then tftp times out and eventually boots from local > disk instead of reinstalling. > > > > At the very least, from sysA (or another machine on the same layer-2 network, > you should be able to use tftp on the command line and get the pxe boot file > from the PXE server. Just in case you haven't tried that already. > > -- > siddharth. > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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