TFTP PXE File Not Found after Upgrade
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I’m beginning to think the issue is either with Ubuntu or with our network environment. I installed a squeaky clean empty Fog server onto Ubuntu 14. I still had 1.0.0 in my folder, but I upgraded to 1.0.1 and I am getting the exact same errors. To re-iterate out-of-the-box Ubuntu install, clean Fog install 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 can’t TFTP from my desktop to the client, can’t PXE boot from a workstation.
(Prevision version was Ub 10 with .33b -> 1.0.0)
@Wolf if I restart I get: tftpd-hpa start/running, process 24585
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I had the same problem.
I installed PHPMyadmin, exported seperate SQL databases that I wanted to keep (images and host for me) and did a clean install of 1.0.1. Not a problem anymore.
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Yeah that was my thought, but its still not working. Strangely I CAN tftp from a workstation on the same vmware host as the FOG server, but still not from my workstation
@TE I’ve searched google/forums pretty hard, and I’ve verified all the steps in the Wiki.
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Ok I figured it out (Finally!) Netware 6.5 DHCP can’t/doesn’t pass the undionly.kpxe var correctly. Not sure if its because our scope is messed up, or if there is something deeper that is causing the issues… I bounced a temporary Windows DHCP server and things lit up (phew!)
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[S]Is your scope options setup? Meaning, do you have options 67/66 set to point at the FOG Server IP and undionly.kpxe file?[/S]
Disregard!
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[quote=“deadturtle, post: 27096, member: 24155”]Ok I figured it out (Finally!) Netware 6.5 DHCP can’t/doesn’t pass the undionly.kpxe var correctly. Not sure if its because our scope is messed up, or if there is something deeper that is causing the issues… I bounced a temporary Windows DHCP server and things lit up (phew!)[/quote]
If you would have said you were Novell sooner, I would have had a suggestion for you.
I as well, am a Novell Network, I am not proud of it, and you must prepare to jump through many hoops.
To solve your issues with iPXE booting, you will want to install DNSMASQ service. Look at this guide here [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Using_FOG_with_an_unmodifiable_DHCP_server/_Using_FOG_with_no_DHCP_server#DNSMASQ_settings_for_iPXE[/url]
this service offers a proxy dhcp for booting during iPXE/PXE booting and help to resolve the tftp server and the boot file name. I thought the cause of the issue was the ip address helpers and the funky way my network is laid out. Glad to know it’s Novell!
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Found out the issue you Jaymes, and deadturtle were/are having with switching to undionly.kpxe in the scope options is simply a numerical setting of the number of characters option 67 can contain. Novel 6.5 (not SP2) will not allow characters over 12 in the options field. This means (undionly.kpxe at 13 characters) does not fit the scope. So you where on the right track of having to create a symbolic link. Best suggestion I can come up with is change the name from undionly.kpxe to ipxe.kpxe. Or do so with a symbolic link.
Thanks to deadturtle for showing the issue and knowing about this character limitation.
Hope this helps.
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DeadTurtle, do you find that using DNSMASQ on your version of linux causes any issues with the boot file?
I’m using an older version of linux and that might be my entire problem, its more or less just for testing purposes anyway, but I have found that while issuing the boot command dnsmasq wants to append .0 to the file making the file either undionly.kpxe.0 or undionly.0
I can circumvent this issue with a symlink
[code]sudo ln -s undionly.kpxe undionly.0[/code]but I am curious to find if there is a better way to serve the file without symlinking, and figuring out WHY dnsmasq appends said 0.
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I don’t know if you found a solution to this but after goggling the problem for days and days. I thought to myself what could have changed between .32 and 1.2. So I looked at the boot setting in the DHCP server and saw that the file name had changed from .32 to 1.2 so make sure you check DHCP settings edit option 067. I really hope this helps someone else bc it drove me nuts. I wish that someone would big red flags and fireworks going off anything to draw more attention to the change in the file name.
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#444444][SIZE=14px]Open up the scope of your DHCP server and edit these settings:[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[LIST]
[]Edit option 066 and enter the IP address of your FOG server.
[]Edit option 067 and put a string value of[COLOR=#ff0000] undionly.kpxe[/COLOR] or undionly.kpxe.INTEL
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[quote=“AllenP, post: 41471, member: 24073”]I don’t know if you found a solution to this but after goggling the problem for days and days. I thought to myself what could have changed between .32 and 1.2. So I looked at the boot setting in the DHCP server and saw that the file name had changed from .32 to 1.2 so make sure you check DHCP settings edit option 067. I really hope this helps someone else bc it drove me nuts. I wish that someone would big red flags and fireworks going off anything to draw more attention to the change in the file name.
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#444444][SIZE=14px]Open up the scope of your DHCP server and edit these settings:[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT]
[LIST]
[]Edit option 066 and enter the IP address of your FOG server.
[]Edit option 067 and put a string value of[COLOR=#ff0000] undionly.kpxe[/COLOR] or undionly.kpxe.INTEL
[/LIST]
[/quote]Part of the installation script that tells you that you need to update your DHCP Scope.
