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    FOG .33b PXE Boot woes

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    • Jaymes DriverJ
      Jaymes Driver Developer
      last edited by

      [quote=“Paul Freeman, post: 28676, member: 23545”]Hello again all.

      I would like to thank you all for your hard work and dedication to the FOG project and all the support you offer everyone and to myself.

      After seeing that .33 was in RC status I decided to wait for the full release. Now I have a fresh install of 1.01 on linux Mint 16 running in production using Cisco router DHCP on 1 NIC.

      I have followed the instructions via the WIKI for using DNSMASQ and after completion I was able to get a PC to start to load into iPXE. It had stopped at trying to load /default.ipxe and I was not sure why, so I rebooted the server and now the machines will no longer boot to iPXE. It now stops again at [I]PXE-E32: TFTP open timeout[/I]. I have verified that both TFTPD-HPA and DNSMASQ services are running.

      I do not understand why it would stop working after a reboot when nothing else has changed.[/quote]

      What happens if you restart the services even though they are running?

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        Paul Freeman
        last edited by

        Restarted the service and now it will boot back into iPXE. Now it stops at [I]/default.ipxe… No such file or directory ([url]http://ipxe.org/2d12603b[/url]) [/I]This reads to me like a permissions issue since the file is in the /tftpboot directory.

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          Paul Freeman
          last edited by

          Changed ownership of /tftpboot to fog user and group and restarted the services and no change.

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          • JunkhackerJ
            Junkhacker Developer
            last edited by

            can you retrieve undionly.kpxe by tftp from another computer from command line?

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              Paul Freeman
              last edited by

              Yes, I am able to retrieve undionly.kpxe and default.ipxe via TFTP.

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              • JunkhackerJ
                Junkhacker Developer
                last edited by

                can you verify that both the undionly.kpxe and default.ipxe are in the same directory and their permissions are 644

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                  Paul Freeman
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                  Both files are in the /tftpboot folder and are set to 644. Still throwing the same error. I currently have fog as the owner of the /tftpboot directory, should i change this back to root?

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                  • JunkhackerJ
                    Junkhacker Developer
                    last edited by

                    so long as the file can be read anonymously, ownership doesn’t matter

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                      Paul Freeman
                      last edited by

                      Good point. Is there another config file somewhere that deals with the path to the default.ipxe? I assume it just looks for it in the /tftpboot directory but perhaps this isnt the case?

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                      • JunkhackerJ
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                        last edited by

                        the undionly.kpxe file automatically searches for default.ipxe in the same directory as itself.
                        changing that setting requires recompiling undionly.kpxe

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                          Paul Freeman
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                          Not sure if this will help, but here is a screen shot of what I am getting on the client PC.

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                          [url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/863_20140530_143053.jpg?:”]20140530_143053.jpg[/url]

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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott
                            last edited by

                            Try this:

                            [code]sudo ln -s /tftpboot/undionly.kpxe /var/lib/tftp/undionly.kpxe
                            sudo ln -s /tftpboot/default.ipxe /var/lib/tftp/default.ipxe[/code]

                            Restart your client and report.

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                              Paul Freeman
                              last edited by

                              I had to create the tftp directory in /var/lib. After running the commands and rebooting the client i have the same message on screen. I also tried creating the links to /var/lib/tftpboot since that was an existing directory, though that also had no effect.

                              I also just tried with a newer client and receive the same error.

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                              • Aziz LomigoraA
                                Aziz Lomigora
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                                Hi guys,

                                I’ve been reading this thread and just want to report that I have the same problem.

                                Here is the screenshot
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                                Is there a solution?
                                Thanks

                                [url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/1/1338_Windows7Pro.png?:”]Windows7Pro.png[/url]

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                                • Tom ElliottT
                                  Tom Elliott
                                  last edited by

                                  Is the tftp server correct?

                                  Does the file undionly.kpxe exist in /tftpboot/?

                                  Have you copied the contents of /tftpboot/* to /var/lib/tftp/?

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                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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