PXE Boot Problems
Martyn Welch
martyn.welch at ge.com
Thu Dec 9 15:20:33 UTC 2010
On 09/12/10 14:35, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On 08/12/10 12:31, Martyn Welch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been using the ISC DHCP server to PXE boot an number of hosts for
>> development and testing for a number of years. I tend to use the version
>> of the ISC DHCP server provided as part of the Linux distribution I am
>> using at the time, until now that has been based on 3.0.3 (part of
>> Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) however we are in the process of moving towards one
>> based on 3.1.3 (part of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
>>
>> This is the cut-down configuration that I have been using to try and
>> resolve my problem:
>>
>> #
>> # DHCP Server Configuration file.
>> # see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample
>> #
>> ddns-update-style none;
>>
>> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>> range 192.168.0.150 192.168.0.254;
>> default-lease-time 3600;
>> max-lease-time 4800;
>> option routers 192.168.0.1;
>> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>> option domain-name "test.lan";
>> option time-offset -7;
>> }
>>
>> host job912f9d725d218e6bb0c42e533c8b08e0-0 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:80:8e:02:57:ca;
>> fixed-address 192.168.0.27;
>> option tftp-server-name "192.168.0.1";
>> option bootfile-name "pxefile0";
>> filename "pxefile0";
>> next-server 192.168.0.1;
>> }
>>
>> This seems to work with the newer version of the ISC DHCP server for
>> most of our hosts, though it is failing for newer hosts using the Intel
>> Boot Agent.
>>
>
> I've discovered that I was wrong - this configuration doesn't work on
> any version of the ISC DHCP server that I've tried.
>
> Is it possible to boot multiple hosts from different boot files when the
> dhcp server is presented with a Parameter Request List in the
> DHCPDISCOVER packet?
>
> Can anyone point me to any documentation?
Or it could be that someones written the MAC address incorrectly into
the host...
Sorry for the noise,
Martyn
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