Din, I've seen a problem in the past, where the kernel starts to download, and then it stops.
In my case, adding '-r blksize' to the tftpd command line solved the problem. Without the '-r blksize', the tftp client and the tftp server will try to negotiate a blocksize of somewhere around 1500 bytes. This can cause problems, especially if your MTU isn't set at 1500. Anyway, adding the '-r blksize' to the server_args line of /etc/xinetd.d/tftp will cause the tftpd to reject the block size negotiation, falling back to the old standard 512 byte blocks. With the short blocksize, there will be 3 times as many blocks, but it happens so quickly, it doesn't make that much of a difference. Anyway, give it a try, don't forget to restart xinetd, and report back what the results are. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Izauddin Mohd Isa wrote: > Hi guys, > > This may not be a ltsp problem, but I thought maybe someone might have > across > this problem already. > > We are setting up a thin client lab using ltsp 3.0 running on redhat > 7.3. Setting up the > ltsp on the server is no problem, but the client cannot boot from the sever. > > The client is a Compaq Deskpro SB Evo D380m. It came with a built-in intel > eepro 100 nic. ( the pc have pxe in it ). Since we want to use the > etherboot boot > rom, we install another 3com 3c905B with the 5.0.6 etherboot boot rom in > the > client. > > the problem is the boot rom is working well and can detect the 3c905B nic, > search for the DHCP server, connected and get an ip address, after > getting the > ip address and located the kernel file, starting to download the kernel > and it > hang. It hang at the kernel download section ( at the ........ after the > (NBI) . > > Running ethereal at the server show that the client seem to lost the ip > address > that it get from the DHCP server, because after the doing tftp to the > client until > data block 9 it stop tftp and doing arp asking where is the client ip > address. > > When we try to use a boot floppy, by taking out 3c905B nic it give the same > problem as above. We put another pc ( Dell ) and boot it using the 3c905B or > a boot floppy, it can boot the kernel and ltsp fine. > > Anybody have encounter this ? any solution ? > > Thanks > > Regards > Din > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
