Re: Remote Configuration is not working

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:18, teresa jeremy wrote:
> I'm playing with PXEConfig-0.9 on  Redhat 9.0 server.  
> It appears that pxes-9.0.initrd that I create does not attempt to get configuration file (/pxes/config/<MAC>.conf )from the tftp server specified when I created the initrd.  The server log does not show any tftp request for the config file.
It should.
> 
> I also tried to force this  option in the pxelinux.cfg/default file as shown below but still no luck.
> ----start--
> label pxes
>         kernel vmlinuz.pxes
>         append initrd=pxes-0.9.initrd ramdisk_size=32768 ro root=/dev/ram  remote_configuration_enabled=1 configuration_server_name=galaxy
> ------end----
> 
Use UPERCASE (i.e: CONFIGURATION_SERVER_NAME=galaxy) or lowercase
abbreviations (i.e: csn=galaxy)
The first I could suspect is that your client is not resolving 'galaxy'
Try login into a console, then
# cd /tmp
# ping galaxy
# tftp galaxy
> get /pxes/config/<MAC>.conf
> quit
#
> I also tried using the prebuilt initrd file (pxe-0.9-1.PB.initrd) but still failure.
> 
> What am I missing?
> Is there a way to load the kernel/initrd in debug mode?  I set the Boot Messages level to 4 when creating the initrd but I still don't see any debug info during PXE boot.
> 
> Thanks.
> TJ



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