[syslinux] PXEboot: can't find configfile on tftpd server

[Cristi Mitrana]

On 9/26/05, hugl herst <huglhuglhugl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got several machines which I'm trying to netboot, the setup is a
> bootserver using dhcpd3 and tftpd-hpa.
>
> When a machine boots up, it gets an ip address and downloads pxelinux.0 from
> the server, then it starts searching for pxelinux.cfg/[MACADDRESS]
> pxelinux.cfg/0A0000F0 and so on. On the server side I see in the syslog the
> client's DHCP-request and the client downloading pxelinux.0, but I never see
> a client asking for pxelinux.0/* .
> Just to see if I have a configuration problem I downloaded the configfile by
> tftping to my bootserver and asking for pxelinux.cfg/0A0000 which works
> fine.
> So dhcp and tftp apparently work fine, but where does is go wrong then?
>

 You've got bitten by the dhcpd upgrade:
 http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/DhcpdSiaddr
basically, from 3.0.3  ISC dhcpd does not provide by default the
'next-server' address
which was (until this version) filled in with the dhcpd server address.


--
mitu