On 2/23/2022 9:17 AM, Stephen Berg, Code 7309 via Kea-users wrote:
Where can I find documentation on setting up pxebooting to do linux installs? I'm running kea-1.8.0-2 on Rocky Linux 8.5. I want to be able to pxeboot different OS's like centos 7.x, rocky 8.x and future releases. The tftp-server is installed and setup, syslinux packages are installed. I've got just a couple clients defined in dhcp as reserved leases and added next-server and filename options for one but when I boot the network from that client it never seems to get to the pxelinux.0 or the defined kernel in the "pxelinux.cfg/01-macaddress" file.I figure I'm probably missing some setup in the kea-dhcp4.conf file but can't find what the missing parts might be.My old setup is centos 6, dhcp-4.1.1. I'd add the next-server and filename lines for a particular host reservation then use pxeboot to setup the pxelinux.cfg file and that would have kernel parameters to boot the installer and read a kickstart file. Right now I can get the new system to boot from the network, it gets an IP from kea but then fails to find the tftp file to boot from.
Additional related issue: On my previous dhcpd setup I'd setup a new system to boot and install from the network with the pxeboot command and it would create the pxelinux.cfg/<host identifier> file with the kernel that's available from tftp and an append line. I can't find the pxeboot command anywhere in Rocky Linux 8.x. I can hand jam those files if needed but was curious if the utility is available somewhere. There's a pxeos.xml file in that setup and it's also seemingly not available in RL8 or kea.
-- Stephen Berg, IT Specialist, Ocean Sciences Division, Code 7309 Naval Research Laboratory W: (228) 688-5738 DSN: (312) 823-5738 C: (228) 365-0162 Email: stephen.b...@nrlssc.navy.mil <- (Preferred contact) Flank Speed: stephen.p.berg....@us.navy.mil
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