Rudi Ahlers writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get a pxeboot server up and running, according to the
> instructions on the WIKI (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup
> & http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup/Menus)
>
> Here's my /tftpboot/pxepxelinux.cfg/default :
>
>
> default menu.c32
> prompt 1
> timeout 300
> ONTIMEOUT local
>
> MENU TITLE PXE Menu
>
> label Dos Bootdisk
> MENU LABEL ^Dos bootdisk
> kernel memdisk
> append initrd=images/622c.img
>
> LABEL CentOS 5 x86_64
> MENU LABEL ^CentOS 5 x86_64
> kernel images/centos/5/x86_64/vmlinuz
> append initrd=images/centos/5/x86_64/initrd.img
> ramdisk_size=100000 ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp url --url
> http://192.168.2.250/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64
>
> label linux
> kernel vmlinuz
> append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=of
>
>
> Then, here's the layout for the CentOS 5 image:
>
> [root@intranet /]# ll /tftpboot/images/centos/5/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 13 07:20 x86_64 ->
> /home/www/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64/
>
>
> As you can see, I linked the folder to a Linux image on the hard
> drive. Apache then advertises that folder on the LAN as follows:
> http://192.168.2.250/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64 and I can browse the
> folders via Firefox.
>
> Yet when I bootup a PC in PXE mode, it doesn't actually load the
> CentOS image. I can see the PXE Menu and choose between "Dos
> Bootdisk", "CentOS 5 x86_64" and "linux" (which I setup as a test).
> When I load "Dos Bootdisk", I get an error:
>
>
> Loading memdisk....
> Could not find ramdisk image:images/622c.img
> boot :
>
>
>
> So, it's reading the configuration, but not loading the CentOS boot
> image. /var/log/messages doesn't give my any errors on this (yes I
> know how to read /var/log/messages)
> Does anyone know how to get pxeboot to output debug messages to
> syslog? OR,what am I doing wrong? The tutorials I got on the net are
> rather vague on this. And please don't tell me to use Cobbler, I
> already tried that but no one one this lists supports it.
You need to have the kernel and initrd under the tftpboot directory,
i.e. not symlinked. I presume /home is automounted? Your boot environment
doesn't know about autofs.
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