[gPXE] Need some help trouble shooting intalling windows 7 via gPXE
Marty Connor
mdc at etherboot.org
Mon Feb 22 16:18:05 EST 2010
On 2/22/10 3:35 PM, Mark Bell wrote:
> Packets are not moving as they should be. I compared it against pinging the
> client from my Ubuntu box
I have a feeling you're expecting gPXE to respond to your pings.
I don't believe gPXE does that. It will however "hear" the packets if
the interface is open.
So if you get to the "gPXE>" prompt, and do:
gPXE> ifopen
gPXE will open your network interface(s).
gPXE> dhcp net0
will get your DHCP configuration information (if possible)
gPXE> route
will show your IP address, netmask, and gateway.
You can then do:
gPXE> ifstat
to see the number of packets:
net0: 00:1e:4f:dd:aa:a2 on PCI00:19.0 (open)
[Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:17 RXE:0]
Now that you have an IP address, you can ping it.
You then repeatedly type:
gPXE> ifstat
and see if the RX field is incrementing.
I believe the current theory is that the packets from the server are not
reaching gPXE, for reasons yet to be understood.
I hope this helps you.
/ Marty /
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