mslicker,

Did you update your dhcpd to ISC 3.0 ?

That is required for booting PXE clients.

Jim McQuillan
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On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, mslicker wrote:

> 
> Trying to make my ThinkNIC boot, I finally removed the "option
> vendor-encapsulated-options ..." line out of dhcpd.conf and now it gets
> DHCP and seems to try and boot.
> 
> I also copied the default file to a file named after the hex values of
> the client's IP, as specified in the HowTo.
> 
> Now I am stuck at a point where the screen shows the following
> as the last lines (exclusing the equals signs, of course):
> ==============================================================
> IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 10.0.249.3, my address is 10.0.249.182
> IP-Config: Complete:
>       device=eth0, addr=10.0.249.182, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=10.0.249.254,
>      host=ws182, domain=simpflex1.com, nis-domain=(none),
>      bootserver=10.0.249.3, rootserver=10.0.249.254,
> rootpath=10.0.249.3:/opt/ltsp/i386
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.249.254
> portmap: server 10.0.249.254 not responding, timed out
> Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
> mount: server 10.0.249.254 not responding, timed out
> Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /tftpboot/lts/ltsroot
> VFS: Unable to mmount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or 02:00
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
> 
> ==============================================================
> 
> So...What's the problem?  What can I do?  It's 3:49am and I'm going to bed
> now.. Will check email again in a few hours..
> 
> --Thanks in advance to anyone who responds..
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, mslicker wrote:
> 
> >
> > I tried using the dhcpd.conf linked in the contribs section for booting
> > ThinkNICs by means of PXE.  It doesn't work..  I don't even get dhcp.
> >
> > Prior to this, my LTSP terminal based on a Boot ROM was working fine.  I
> > tried putting in just the lines pertaining to the ThinkNIC to this working
> > dhcpd.conf file and it didn't work either..
> >
> > The ThinkNIC did get dhcp with the standard method I had been using prior.
> > Here's what my dhcpd.conf looks like (modified from the ThinkNIC version
> > in the contrib area of LTSP.org) followed by the older, working version:
> >
> > ======================<< From Contrib for ThinkNIC PXE >>===============
> > option subnet-mask              255.255.255.0;
> > option broadcast-address        10.0.249.255;
> > option routers                  10.0.249.254;
> > option domain-name-servers      10.0.249.254;
> > option domain-name              "simpflex1.com";
> > option netbios-name-servers     10.0.249.254;
> >
> >
> > subnet 10.0.249.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> >         range dynamic-bootp 10.0.249.180 10.0.249.189;
> >         use-host-decl-names     on;
> >         option log-servers      10.0.249.254;
> >         allow unknown-clients;
> >         filename "vmlinuz.all";
> >         next-server 10.0.249.254;
> >
> >         host peaches {
> >                 hardware ethernet       00:40:9F:30:01:78;
> >                 fixed-address           10.0.249.99;
> >         }
> >         host ws100 {
> >                 hardware ethernet       00:E0:06:F5:A8:DD;
> >                 fixed-address           10.0.249.190;
> >                 filename "pxelinux.0";
> >                 option dhcp-class-identifier "PXEClient";
> >                 option vendor-encapsulated-options
> > 
>09:0f:80:00:0c:4e:65:74:77:6f:72:6b:20:62:6f:6f:74:0a:07:00:50:72:6f:6d:70:74:06:01:02:08:03:80:00:00:47:04:80:00:00:00:ff;
> >         }
> > }
> >
> >
> > ==============<< Older Working version with LTSP Boot ROM >>============
> > # Sample configuration file for ISCD dhcpd
> > #
> > # Don't forget to set run_dhcpd=1 in /etc/init.d/dhcpd
> > # once you adjusted this file and copied it to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
> > #
> >
> > ddns-update-style             ad-hoc;
> > default-lease-time            21600;
> > max-lease-time                21600;
> >
> > option subnet-mask            255.255.255.0;
> > option broadcast-address      10.0.249.255;
> > option routers                10.0.249.254;
> > option domain-name-servers    10.0.249.254;
> > option domain-name            "simpflex1.com";
> > option root-path              "10.0.249.3:/opt/ltsp/i386";
> > option option-128 code 128 = string;
> > option option-129 code 129 = text;
> >
> > shared-network WORKSTATIONS {
> >     subnet 10.0.249.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > group   {
> >     use-host-decl-names       on;
> >     option log-servers        10.0.249.3;
> >
> >     host ws01 {
> >         hardware ethernet     00:D0:09:30:6A:1C;
> >         fixed-address         10.0.249.180;
> >         filename              "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
> > ##        option option-128     e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> > ##        option option-129     "NIC=tulip";
> >     }
> >     host kds {
> >         hardware ethernet     00:40:F4:17:98:CB;
> >         fixed-address         10.0.249.181;
> > #        filename              "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
> > ##        option option-128     e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> > ##        option option-129     "NIC=tulip";
> >         }
> >     host nic91 {
> >         hardware ethernet     00:E0:06:F5:A8:DD;
> >         fixed-address         10.0.249.191;
> >         filename              "lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
> >         }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
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