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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m trying to use gPxe in our lab environment and running into some issues.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I was getting a DHCP connection timeout error as discussed in the following thread:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://markmail.org/message/goh7mh4kctkc77dw">http://markmail.org/message/goh7mh4kctkc77dw</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">After following Thomas’s instructions (building gPxe from source and setting a sleep time) I got over that issue. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’d to make the changes as highlighted on Pxe chainloading (Etherboot) to break the infinite loop: <a href="http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining">http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining</a> (Using windows DHCP server).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s my exact setup:<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Built gPxe from source with a sleep time and HTTPS support.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Copied over the undionly.kpxe files to my TFTP server.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Set up DHCP server (Windows) with pxe chainloading to avoid the infinite loop as discussed on <a href="http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining">http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>My DHCP server points to the tramp file which has <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">#!gpxe<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">set filename <a href="https://%3cserver">https://<server</a> IP>/vmw/rbd/trampchain <a href="https://%3cserver">https://<server</a> IP>/vmw/rbd/tramp<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>The file at the above url has the following: <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">#!gpxe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">set retry-delay 20<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">post /vmw/rbd/host-register?bootmac=${mac}</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2" class="MsoListParagraph"><![if !supportLists]><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><![endif]>Now when my server boots up it gets the DHCP IP during gPxe (which was failing earlier and was resolved by adding the sleep in gPxe).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Then the server displays: Booting from filename “tramp”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Transfers the file from TFTP server.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Then it tries to execute the post command above and fails with Command not found.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">Also get an error : Could not fetch <a href="https://%3cserver">https://<server</a> IP>/vmw/rbd/tramp: Not an executable image.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph">I’m pretty sure in trying to get this to work I have made some mistakes in my setup. Any help in resolving the above would be really appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<span style="color:#1F497D">!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>