Am Donnerstag, den 13.07.2006, 12:37 +0500 schrieb Metal Gear: > hi all, > i am trying to boot a workstation using PXE. I am facing a strange > problem, follwoing is my dhcpd.conf
> ######################################################## > when i try to use only 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0";' > only then thin client hangs on "uncompressing the linux...." and when > i try to use 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/eb-5.4.2-3c90x.zpxe' then > thin client constantly emits debugging messages. In then end i have to > use 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/eb-5.4.2-3c90x.zpxe' and then > restart my dhcp service at that point thin client is constatly > emitting messages and does no load gnome. In the second step i > uncomment the line 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0' > eventually the thin client goes into gnome. I am using 3 com > 3C905-TX-M card. > Any help would be appreciated, This sounds as if the PXE implementation on your 3com card is broken, and will not execute "pxelinux". It will run Etherboot though, which in turn is able to run pxelinux, weird enough. My first advice is to get rid of the 3com boot loader on that 3c905 - those boards iirc have a flash memory on it that can be reprogrammed in-situ, with appropriate software (probably available from 3com). Get Etherboot (in .zrom format) and burn it into that chip, which should you get rid of that problem. If that is not possible, a bit of DHCP magic should do the trick. Every client software should send a "client identifier" string when requesting an address. Find out what 3com and Etherboot send (ethereal is your friend). Use the trick described in http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html and set that if-else-statement (about three screens worth of text down that document) to refer to pxelinux.0 and the etherboot....zpxe file, respectively. Sorry I'm too lazy to write that down, time to get some sleep. Ask back if you don't work all that out yourself. Hth Anselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
