[syslinux] Booting with PXE on Intel Pro GT

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Fri Mar 2 14:01:25 PST 2007


J.H. wrote:
> This looks like you've made this WAY more complex and insane than it's
> needed to be.  I would suggest you read through
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php as it has an the basic framework you
> will need to work with.  Now taking that and what you have and moving
> forward you probably need something akin to this:
>
> ----------
> dhcp.conf:
> ----------
> ddns-update-style none;
> # Definition of PXE-specific options
> allow booting;
> allow bootp;
> subnet 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 	filename "pxelinux.0";
> 	next-server 10.10.10.1;
>
> 	deny unknown clients;
>
> 	host node1 {
> 		hardware ethernet 00:50:DA:B5:2A:3D;
> 		fixed-address 10.10.10.5;
> 	}
> }
>   

I don't know if it will help for sure or not, but I believe you should 
also add:
server-name "10.10.10.1";

I have had some cards not pick up the tftp server using only 
next-server, they
started working after adding server-name.

HTH.

-Andrew




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