[syslinux] Could not find kernel image : vmlinuz

[Sandeep Agarwal]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Geert Stappers<stappers at stappers.nl> wrote:
> Op 20090806 om 23:01 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
>> On 08/06/2009 08:01 PM, Sandeep Agarwal wrote:
>> >
>> > also i tired to strace the process, i don't know if i was doing it
>> > correctly, but it showed that the file "vmlinuz" was opened but was
>> > never read. So I did tried changing the ownership of the TFTP folder
>> > (/tftpboot) to nobody and tried but the results where the same.
>> >
>>
>> BTW, what does your iptables look like?
>
> This from a previous posting from Sandeep Agarwal:
>
>  49   2.212315 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /pxelinux.cfg/C0A, Transfer type: octet
>  50   2.219726  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  51   2.223174 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /pxelinux.cfg/C0, Transfer type: octet
>  52   2.230393  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  53   2.233918 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /pxelinux.cfg/C, Transfer type: octet
>  54   2.240970  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  55   2.244533 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /pxelinux.cfg/default, Transfer type: octet
>  56   2.251542  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  57   2.251683 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Acknowledgement, Block: 0
>  58   2.251883  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Data Packet, Block: 1 (last)
>  59   2.252030 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Acknowledgement, Block: 1
>  60   3.173123  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  61   3.189111  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
> several lines 192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  82   9.229481  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  83   9.241481  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.240 TFTP Option Acknowledgement
>  84  12.294066 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /vmlinuz, Transfer type: octet
>  85  12.838913 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /vmlinuz, Transfer type: octet
> several lines 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /vmlinuz, Transfer type: octet
>  106 160.851305 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /vmlinuz, Transfer type: octet
>  107 191.057958 192.168.1.240 -> 192.168.1.1  TFTP Read Request, File: /vmlinuz, Transfer type: octet
>
>
> If we are solving an iptables issue, then we are dealling with dynamic iptables rules.
> (something reconfigs the TFTP port after the transfer of pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.cfg/default )
>
>
> Cheers
> Geert Stappers
>

I do not have any IPtables rules defined:

# /sbin/iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination


I downloaded TFTP server from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/network/tftp/tftp-hpa-5.0.tar.gz

As suggested I'll try the setup with another machine but it'll take
some time to get the network setup done (I am doing a remote install
via SOL using IPMI) will update when I have the network in place.

Thanks

Sandeep