Re: Remote Configuration is not working

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 23:23, teresa jeremy wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.  I'll give it try tomorrow when I get to work.
> I should also mention that I'm using a Windows 2000 DHCP and RIS server to network boot pxes.  I only use the Linux box to build the initrd image.
It is worth to mention, there is a _BUG_ in MS TFTP (RIS). When some
requested file is missing TFTP mixes the contets.
But PXES has a workaround, set MICROSOFT_TFTP_WORKAROUND_ENABLED=1 in
kernel command line.
> 
> 
> Question: 
> 
> How to I get the kernel/initrd to load in debug mode?
> As I stated in my previous message, pxes-0.9 does not show any debug info that I normally see when using pxes-0.8.
> 
In kernel command line: PXES_DEBUG=1 BOOT_MESSAGES=3
And remove console=null.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 21:34:19 -0300
> To: PXES devel <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] 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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