A minor update, for the archives:
On a contiguous network the broadcast finding of the PXE server worked
fine, without the next-server info on the DHCP box. Having said that,
the kernel (initrd-everything from 7.3 disks) crashed utterly whenever
trying to loadup the harddrives:
cramfs: wrong magic
and some FAT errors. Both initrd images (-everything and normal) had
the same behavior.
Booting from the 7.3 CD's worked fine.
Unfortunately I didn't have time to grab and setup pxelinux as
recommended, as this project had a deadline. I will continue to play
with the RH PXE RPM environment and see if I can duplicate and or solve
the problem I had.
THanks for all the replies. VERY helpful!
-Matthew
Philip Rowlands wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
This seems the most likely place to get an answer to my question, so
I'll try here first. I've got a PXE server setup per the documentation,
with all vmlinuz and initrd images in place.
Don't know which documentation you're talking about, but I'll explain
how my PXE setup works.
What I'm trying to do, is boot a PXE client, and install from it on
monitor and keyboard. I have RedHat 7.3 on the PXE server, along with
disk 1 and disk 2 exported via nfs. My main question is, do I have to
have kickstart files in place as well?
Do you want to kickstart? Or do you want to interactively answer all the
anaconda prompts (partitions/packages/etc.)? You don't *need* to
kickstart - PXE just replaces the floppy or CD as the place to load the
first stage from.
My dhcpd.conf:
next-server 1.2.3.4;
filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.bin";
My /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
serial 0,9600
default ks
prompt 1
timeout 30
label text
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192
label expert
kernel vmlinuz
append expert initrd=initrd.img devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ks=nfs:1.2.3.4:/nfsdir initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192
You'd probably want to use "default text".
Cheers,
Phil
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