[syslinux] PXE linux install server with CentOS 5

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ramine Akhavan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to setup a PXE boot installation server
> (CentOS 5 which has tftp-server-0.42-31.el5.centos and dhcp-3.0.5-5el5 
> and httpd-2.2.3.7.el5.centos) and I followed this recommendation:
> 
> http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html
> 
> in order to create an http install server (I'd rather not do NFS, FTP
> installations due to bandwitdth restrictions at our site). I keep
> getting
> the following errors on the client side:
> 
> ----------------------
> Broadcom Base Code: PXE-2.1 v1.04
> Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Broadcom Corporation
> Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Intel
> 
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00188BF9DA55 GUID:44454C4C 5400 1048 8054 B8C04F344431
> CLIENT IP: 192.168.0.254 MASK:255.255.255.0 DHCP IP:192.168.0.2
> GATEWAY IP: 192.168.0.1
> 
> PXELINUX 3.11 2005-09-02 Copyright (c) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
> 
> UNDI data segment at 00094EA0
> UNDI data segment size:3AE0
> UNDI data segment at 00098980
> UNDI data segment size: 60F8
> PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9898:00DA
> My IP address seems to be C0A800FE 192.168.0.254
> ip=192.168.0.254;0.0.0.0:192.168.0.1:255.255.255.0
                   ^^^^^^^

Looks like you're missing a "next-server" directive in your dhcpd.conf.
 You either need that, or you need to upgrade to PXELINUX 3.51.

	-hpa