Re: Workstations booting with UEFI don't tftp lts.conf

I've posted a bug report for this.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ltsp/+bug/1814006


On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 10:57, Norman Gaywood <[email protected]> wrote:

> To answer my own question, the problem was that for the UEFI booting, my
> pxelinux.conf/ config for booting ltsp looked like:
>
> kernel http://123.456.78.9/ltsp/amd64/vmlinuz
> append ro initrd=http://123.456.78.9/ltsp/amd64/initrd.img-generic
> init=/sbin/init-ltsp forcepae root=/dev/nbd0
>
> The place where LTSP retrieves the lts.conf file is
> in /usr/share/ltsp/init-ltsp.d/05-getltsconffile and this fails to parse
> the http:// string properly.
> So I slightly modified 05-getltsconffile to work for both my cases, and I
> hope for all the original cases it worked for:
>
> # diff 05-getltsconffile
> /opt/ltsp-old/amd64/usr/share/ltsp/init-ltsp.d/05-getltsconffile
> 5,6c5
> < # The path may also be part of a URL so also need to remove leading
> 'proto://host'
> < # If there is no path, we want just "lts.conf" without inserting a
> slash, as some tftp
> ---
> > # If it doesn't, we want just "lts.conf" without inserting a slash, as
> some tftp
> 11c10
> <     boot_image=$(cat /proc/cmdline | sed -n
> 's/.*BOOT_IMAGE=\([^[:space:]]*\).*/\1/p' | sed 's#^[^:]*://[^/]*##')
> ---
> >     boot_image=$(sed -n 's/.*BOOT_IMAGE=\([^[:space:]]*\).*/\1/p'
> /proc/cmdline)
>
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 12:55, Norman Gaywood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have 2 types of workstations booting via DHCP and pxelinux.
>> One uses legacy BIOS pxe booting, the other uses UEFI pxe booting.
>> Both boot to a workstation login screen, however the UEFI WS does not ask
>> for the ltp.conf file correctly.
>>
>> In the BIOS booting WS I see this in the logs:
>>  in.tftpd[8124]: RRQ from 129.180.101.77 filename /ltsp/amd64/lts.conf
>>
>> In the UEFI booting WS I see this in the logs:
>> in.tftpd[8189]: RRQ from 129.180.101.54 filename /tmp/tmp.kQEOEuRP1m
>> in.tftpd[8189]: sending NAK (1, File not found) to 129.180.101.54
>>
>> As a result, getltscfg -a on the UEFI booted system returns nothing.
>>
>> Any ideas what might be wrong here?
>> --
>> Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
>> School of Science and Technology
>> University of New England
>> Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
>>
>> [email protected]  http://turing.une.edu.au/~ngaywood
>> Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412  Mobile: +61 (0)4 7862 0062
>>
>> Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments.
>> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>
>
>
> --
> Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
> School of Science and Technology
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
>
> [email protected]  http://turing.une.edu.au/~ngaywood
> Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412  Mobile: +61 (0)4 7862 0062
>
> Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments.
> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>


-- 
Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
School of Science and Technology
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia

[email protected]  http://turing.une.edu.au/~ngaywood
Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412  Mobile: +61 (0)4 7862 0062

Please avoid sending me Word or Power Point attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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