On 03/05/2011 01:23 PM, Christian Horn wrote:
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:41:19AM -0500, Bob Cochran wrote:
> My problem: when I turn on the machine that is to PXE boot, I get a
> PXE-E53 error message: "No boot filename recieved".
Sounds like the 'filename' parameter is missing in you dhcpd.conf,
instructing the client what file to fetch as netboot loader.
Instructions on the net on how to setup pxe-environments will help.
Thank you Christian! It looks like Verizon routers which are able to do
dhcp will only implement parts of the dhcp protocol and don't send that
needed "filename" parameter. I found a second router box, and put my
cobbler server plus the machine I want to install Fedora 14 to on a new
subnet. I tested to make sure I have internet access for the cobbler
server. Then I installed dhcp on the cobbler server, edited the
dhcp.template to reflect this information, turned on the manage_dhcp
parameter, started dhcp, restarted cobbler, did a cobbler check and a
cobbler sync. So far all was well. Then I edited my kickstart file. Then
I turned on the machine I want to install to, and up came the cobbler
screen!
I am now testing whether the kickstart file really works.
The bottom line seems to be that on my home network, I really need to
have the ISC flavor of dhcp working if I want to do network booting.
Bob Cochran