Dear list,
Firstly my apologies for the length of this post, but I hope it will help
someone to help me :-)
I have got a SuSE server configured with LTSP-3.0 that I can use to
successfully 'Etherboot' a VIA-ITX based system with one of the boot images
from Rom-O-Matic. (Instead of booting from a floppy image, I have to write it
to an old harddisk and boot from that instead).
I have the complication that my LTSP server is separate from my DHCP server but
it works OK.
When I use the PXE-2.0 boot ROM on this board I start hitting problems... By
cobbling together information from the BpBatch website and the pxe-stuff
downloaded from ltsp.org (plus some other odds and ends) I setup my dhcpd.conf
as below:
#####My pxe boot dhcp.conf######
ddns-update-style none;
authoritative;
use-host-decl-names on;
option option-135 code 135 = string;
subnet 10.6.18.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range dynamic-bootp 10.6.18.101 10.6.18.200;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "accessit.co.uk";
option routers 10.6.18.10;
option domain-name-servers 10.6.18.1;
option netbios-name-servers 10.6.18.1;
option time-servers 10.6.18.1;
option pop-server 10.6.18.1;
option www-server 10.6.18.1;
option smtp-server 10.6.18.1;
default-lease-time 259200;
max-lease-time 2592000;
}
host miniitx {
hardware ethernet 00:40:63:C0:F5:B7;
fixed-address 10.6.18.41;
option root-path "10.6.18.3:/opt/ltsp/i386";
next-server 10.6.18.3;
option option-135 "bpbatch";
option vendor-class-identifier "PXEclient";
option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:04:00:00:00:00:ff;
filename "/lts/bpbatch/bpbatch";
}
and the bpbatch.bpb file as below
################# /tftpboot/lts/bpbatch/bpbatch.bpb ############
set CacheNever="ON"
set len=@"$Basename"
set len=($len - 9)
set mybase="$Basename"[0-$len]
LinuxBoot "$mybase/bzImage-3.0.1-ltsp-4" "root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw"
"mybase/initrd-2.4.19-ltsp-1.gz"
################# End /tftpboot/lts/bpbatch/bpbatch.bpb #########
Noting that the bzImage and other bpbatch files are located in
/tftpboot/lts/bpbatch on the ltsp server.
After much jiggling to get to this stage, on my client machine I get the
following on screen when it tries to boot from LAN:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel Corporation
VIA PCI 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet Adapter v1.19 (2001/11/16)
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 40 63 C0 F5 B7 GUID FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
CLIENT IP: 10.6.18.41 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.6.18.1
GATEWAY IP: 10.6.18.10
Starting BpBatch - PXE Boot ROM detected
BpBatch overlay loader v1.1 (Feb 1 2000)
Overlay file successfully loaded
MrBatch - Pre-boot batch processor v1.1 (Feb 1 2000)
(c) Marc Vuillumier Stuckelberg and David Clerc, U. of Geneva, 1997-2000
http://www.bpbatch.org/
- BootProm detected, using 10.6.18.3 as standard TFTP server
- Advanced Power Management V1.2
- Using up to 345K of conventional memory for the heap
- Using up to 15296K of extended memory
- Direct disk write access enabled
ERROR: [OpenFILE] cannot open remote file
Error in Bootstrap loader, line 1: Cannot load file
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Admittedly my dhcp.conf has some useless garbage (used for other workstations
whose config I have omitted) but I hoped it might work...
I am using dhcp 3.0 and a standard tftp server.
Does anyone have any ideas what is wrong with my configuration? Any other info
can be provided if it helps.
David Mummery
Developer
Access IT Ltd www.accessit.co.uk
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