[syslinux] Has anyone any insightas towhy RedHatEnterprise Level 5 is broken as far asPXE bootingis concerned.

RgSalisbury rgsalisbury at exemail.com.au
Tue May 29 08:17:20 PDT 2007


Man O Man
Answered in *SUPERB DETAIL* within the links

Thanks again Axel

cheers
Roger -)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dyks, Axel (XL)" <xl at xlsigned.net>
To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Has anyone any insightas towhy RedHatEnterprise 
Level 5 is broken as far asPXE bootingis concerned.


> Quoting RgSalisbury <rgsalisbury at exemail.com.au>:
>
>> OK good NEWS
>>
>> It seems that the dhcpd-3.0.5-5.el5.rpm and dhcpd-3.0.3-5.el5.rpm
>> versions need a next-server option  (even if tftp& dhcp are on the same
>> box )& ought to be grouped with the client directives.
>>
>> As below:
>>
>> This minimal  dhcpd.conf file **WORKS**
>> ###########################################
>> ddns-update-style interim;
>> ignore client-updates;
>> subnet 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>>       option routers                 172.16.0.254;
>>       option subnet-mask       255.255.255.0;
>> filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
>> allow booting;
>> allow bootp;
>>       range dynamic-bootp 172.16.0.128 172.16.0.254;
>>       default-lease-time 21600;
>>       max-lease-time 43200;
>> group {
>>             next-server 172.16.0.254;
>> host abcd  {hardware ethernet 00:01:6c:ca:24:7b ;fixed-address 
>> 172.16.0.30;}
>>       }
>> }
>> ###########################################
>
> ISC changed dhcpd's default for missing "next-server" statements
> from version 3.0.2 to version 3.0.3.
>
> See: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2007-May/008492.html
>
> It's all in the books (mailing loist archives) ...
>
> :-) Axel
>
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