On 2015-09-02, Robert Mavrinac wrote: > That was it! Thank you. Good.
> For now I will delete PXE-related files in /boot, if they exist, > before running "ltsp-update-image --cleanup /". I tested this and it > works as expected. I did, however, have to edit > /etc/ltsp/update-kernels.conf to include the server's ip address > explicitly in the nbdroot option (ltsp-update-image failed to evaluate > it). Yes, that was my next question; it might be tricky to get it to evaluate correctly... > The /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels script is the culprit, because it > creates PXE files in /boot, which is expected in the image > file. Normally this is supposed to be run in a chroot. The > /usr/sbin/ltsp-update-kernels script copies those files to the tftp > directory. Obviously, I should never run > /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels directly on the server set up using the > LTSP PNP concept. It should be safe to run update-kernels on the server, actually, and Alkis finally convinced me that it is best to run as part of ltsp-client-core postinst and/or as a dpkg trigger.... > I also notice that only gpxelinux.0 and pxelinux.0 are included in > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386. You should also copy lpxelinux.0 there by > default, because the distribution pxelinux.0 itself doesn't support > chaining an http url on boot. I had to copy lpxelinux.0 to > /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386 to get my LTSP clients to boot over HTTP. Should be easy to add, bug please file a bug report! live well, vagrant
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