On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 at 10:49, Ken Smith via GLLUG
<gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
Ken Smith via GLLUG wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I wonder if someone with Debian and pxe understanding might
point me
> in the right direction.
>
> I have a Rocky server with dhcp/tftp/httpd that hosts Rocky and
Fedora
> as pxe bootable images. It works fine.
>
> I'm trying to do similar for Debian 12 but not quite getting the
right
> incantations.
>
> The vmlinuz and initrd load just fine and i get the error
"Unable to
> find live system filesystem on the network"
>
> I pointed the root filesystem at filesystem.squashfs. Is the
standard
> vmlinuz/initrd able to map the rest of the system via httpd??
>
> Any tips welcome
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken
>
>
I'm making progress. I added dhcp ethdevice=eno1 to the
parameters in
the pxe configuration and now one of my PC's finds the
filesystem.squashfs and attempts to boot. It freezes at "Starting
Gnome
Display Manager"
I tried another system that has more memory and it fails with a
message
that it can't find eno1. Interesting.
:-) Ken
John Hearns via GLLUG wrote:
Ethernet device naming is a minefield, even with the predictable names
(yeah I know.. do some studying)
I set biosdevname=1 in the kernel parameters when building HPC clusters
In the end I got it working by leaving out the "ethdevice=" statement
and letting the booting system work it out.
:-) Thanks Ken
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