[gPXE] Long Shot

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

CCed gPXE mailing list so others can help, too.

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:51 PM, FM <fm9 at shaw.ca> wrote:
>  Hi   Thanks for the replay.  I'm really enjoying the gpxe project.
>
>   I was able to boot TinyCore linux by coping the provided kernel and initrd
> to /var/www/
>
>   I'll try the LTSP boot over HTTP  trying your suggestion. I would think
> the path would need
>
> /opt/ltsp/i386  as the path I'll find out.
>
> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/ltsp/
> Had no Idea about the NFS  part , and tried copying the whole
> ltsp/i386/boot/ dir to www/ . It hung in the pxelinux/default scripts.

Sorry, I don't know LTSP so I can't make a suggestion.  I hope someone
else on the mailing list can help here.

>  TinyCore
>
> Issues with TC linux.  Had to use PS/2 keyboard and mouse for interaction
> (probable VIA chipset issue)
> No internet access while in TC linux. Both nics are unconfigured and using
> the provided tool doesn't make any difference. Can't ping gateway or
> anything
> I'm probably over my head here as well.  Is gpxe handing the ip
> configuration over to the web server after it boots? As this isn't a FQDN
> just a the router ip it probably need rules to route clients?

gPXE does not affect the Linux network configuration.  You need to
either DHCP (e.g. dhclient eth0 from a root shell) or use a static
network configuration (ip, netmask, gateway, DNS) in Linux.

> The test setup is basically.     PC's  nic   through a ibm server  with ip
> forwarding  to the internet.  gpxeboot same PC  TC linux client  booting
> from the ibm servers 24.x.x.x  ip.
>
> Other than that I'm probably on borrowed time with my security settings  ie
> firewall or lack there off.

Stefan