Daniel Widyono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I pulled sis "3.5.2" from subversion, built RPMs as per Ole's excellent
HOWTO, have some additional notes at the end of this post.
PXE/DHCP Question: Upon rebooting client, I get DHCPREQUEST, and server gives
DHCPOFFER with correct IP address (I'm using fixed-address and applied
fixed-address patch to dhcp). I then see a continued pattern of DHCPREQUEST
and DHCPOFFER, then PXE times out after about ten(?) attempts, and tries the
whole cycle again after 5 minutes.
These are IBM x330's, and they have PXE-booted in the past with much older
xcat and sisuite packages (originally installed about 3 years ago), along
with redhat 7.2. I'm now using latest sisuite (xcat not yet installed) and
RHEL4 clone (Fermi SL4).
Hmm, I didn't do any patching to my DHCP daemon on RHEL 4.0. Have you
tried the vanilla Redhat DHCP ? Are you sure that your TFTP server
is working correctly and is located on the DHCP server ? Check the
/etc/dhcpd.conf file to ensure that you have set option-140
and next-server to point to your DHCP/TFTP server (this is
usually set up by the si_mkbootserver). If the PXE client
can't download its files by TFTP, you would see the scenario that
you describe.
If your machines are very old, I wonder if their PXE code require the
"pxe daemon" (which I've never seen any use for).
Additional notes on RHEL4 installation on administrative/management node:
Before trying to download and recompile sisuite, make sure you do the
following:
download to /usr/src:
zlib-1.1.4.tar.gz, openssl-0.9.7e.tar.gz, popt-1.6.2.tar.gz
make sure these are installed (some are for xcat):
gcc, glibc-devel, glibc-headers, glibc-kernheaders, cpp,
gcc-c++, libstdc++-devel, flex, e2fsprogs-devel,
readline-devel, libtermcap-devel, libtool, libtool-libs,
automake, autoconf
zlib-devel, openssl-devel, krb5-devel
expect, tcl, tftp-server, tftp
lm_sensors, net-snmp-libs, net-snmp, net-snmp-utils,
net-snmp-perl, net-snmp-devel, dhcp, rpm-build, which
apr, apr-util, umb-scheme, guile, swig, neon, subversion
As you can see, I start my servers out with minimal install.
Thanks, I've added your comments to my SI HowTo at
ftp://ftp.fysik.dtu.dk/pub/SystemImager/systemimager-3.5.howto
Ole Holm Nielsen
Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark
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