On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 22:20, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sunday 13 April 2003 13:04, Felipe Alfaro Solana uttered: > > Hi! > > > > I've been trying to setup PXE on my RH9 linux box with no success yet: > > my PXE client seems to be able to load > > "/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/linux.0" but displays the following > > error message: > > > > PXE-Exx: Cannot find PXE_BOOT_ITEM (43,71) tag. > > > > I have copied "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" from "/images/pxeboot" on RH9 > > CD1 to "/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/linux.0". It didn't seem to > > help, so I renamed "vmlinuz" to "linux" and "initrd.img" to "linux.2" > > with no luck. > > > > I haven't been able to find a document describing completely how to set > > up PXE. Some of them, state that you don't need pxe RPM package (only > > DHCP and TFTP), others seem to make reference to "pxelinux.0" and > > "pxelinux.cfg". I'm lost. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > What exactly do you want to do w/ PXE? I just want to install RHL9 using PXE+NFS and, optionally, kickstart. > I recently setup a PXE/kickstart server, using a boot loader file from > syslinux, and a config file I made myself. Also, I used the kernel/initrd > found on the cd, same place where you found yours. I did not use the pxe > rpm, just DHCP/tftpd. I'm in the process of writing a how-to to set this up > using RHL 9. Interesting... Could you please post the URL to this list when it's done? Thanks! -- Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Linux Registered User #287198
