Re: Cannot get through PXE boot: dracut duplicate address problem

[Christian Meyer]

Hello Nat,

I had a similar problem some time ago. I don't remember the exact dracut 
message. It has been a switch that had a static IP adress configured but 
windows dhcp server didn't know about that and gave that IP to my FAI client, 
too. 
Solution was to configure windows dhcp server. 

Christian 


Am 18. August 2017 15:41:19 MESZ, schrieb Thomas Lange 
:
>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:06:29 -0700, Nat Sincheler
> said:
>
>> (I realize this is not strictly speaking an FAI issue, but I am
>hoping 
>> that one you FAI users has a solution.)
>
>> We are trying to install the old Debian wheezy on a Dell PE 620 using
>
>> FAI. The first step is the PXE boot where the wheezy bootstrap image
>is 
>> downloaded from our tftp server. The boot image downloads and gets
>quite 
>> far along. However, about 3 or 4 minutes into the PXE boot we see
>this 
>> error message and then the boot stops:
>
>> dracut Warning: Duplicate address detected for X.X.X.X while doing
>dhcp. 
>> retrying
>> dracut Warning: could not boot.
>
>First which dracut version are you using?
>add rd.debug to see more debug output of dracut. Also read man
>dracut.cmdline to see if more options help you debug the problem.
>If dracut stops and drops you into a rescue shell you have some
>commands to check you network settings.


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Re: Cannot get through PXE boot: dracut duplicate address problem

[Thomas Lange]

> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:06:29 -0700, Nat Sincheler  
> said:

> (I realize this is not strictly speaking an FAI issue, but I am hoping 
> that one you FAI users has a solution.)

> We are trying to install the old Debian wheezy on a Dell PE 620 using 
> FAI. The first step is the PXE boot where the wheezy bootstrap image is 
> downloaded from our tftp server. The boot image downloads and gets quite 
> far along. However, about 3 or 4 minutes into the PXE boot we see this 
> error message and then the boot stops:

> dracut Warning: Duplicate address detected for X.X.X.X while doing dhcp. 
> retrying
> dracut Warning: could not boot.

First which dracut version are you using?
add rd.debug to see more debug output of dracut. Also read man
dracut.cmdline to see if more options help you debug the problem.
If dracut stops and drops you into a rescue shell you have some
commands to check you network settings.


-- 
regards Thomas