Issue with PXE and DHCP
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Alright, situation has changed, just realized that PXE has no interest in obtaining an IP, and in a blink of an eye it flashes pxe-e53 no boot filename
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[COLOR=#666666][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial]from google…Make sure that the “boot filename” option is present on your DHCP or BOOTP server, and that its value is set to the filename of the boot loader.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#666666][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial]When using Microsoft DHCP server, add option 067 (Bootfile Name) to your scope. When using a Unix/Linux based (ISC) DHCP server, use the “filename” parameter for this purpose[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
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[COLOR=#666666][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial]from me…[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#666666][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial]there are two options that need set. Option 66 and 67 ( I think its 66) Those are microsoft numbers. In linux is something like this[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]
[SIZE=14px][COLOR=black][FONT=monospace]# The boot filename.
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0[/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][COLOR=black][FONT=monospace] [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] -
except that should be [SIZE=14px][FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] instead
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So this isn’t done upon installing fog? I just got home now so I’m firing up the VM server now, will get back to ya in a sec. Thanks for the replies everyone :-D.
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Alright I added that to dhcpd.conf (I didnt see the commented out section of anything like it so I added it manually) and nothing changed. Is dhcpd.conf where it is supposed to go?
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Checked the status and It’s failing to start because of that line of code
“[SIZE=14px][FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]” -
Well I made a whole new VM and installed fog again, instead letting the script configure the DHCP server instead and it does some new stuff now, now it says could not configure console, no such file or directory and could not boot: no such file or directory.
but it is connecting to the fog VM now, just not loading the menu
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Because this is at your house and you’re just experimenting, I’d really recommend getting away from Ubuntu.
Maybe try Red Hat or Fedora or CentOS ?
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How different are the commands? All I’ve been messing with for the past few years is Debian and Ubuntu. Also, which would you recommend most?
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Tom would say Red Hat Server (and he knows a WHOLE lot more about it than me).
I’d say Fedora 21 Server.
The differences between Red Hat based and Debian based aren’t so bad, really.
You use YUM instead of Apt-Get, the web directory is /var/www/html instead of /var/www, the config files are basically the same but in different spots.
Fedora has some nice systemctl commands to get status of services and such, and makes enabling services on boot pretty simple.
And, for what it’s worth, I believe the very first version of FOG was developed on Fedora.
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I installed fog on my Ubuntu machine at home and it worked just fine. It was a real machine and not a VM. I also had the same machine running DHCP as well as fog. I just answered yes to the question about is the dhcp on the same server.
Here at work it is on Fedora like 12 (dont laugh) I use a generic txt only dhcp server called dhcpdns ( [url]http://dhcp-dns-server.sourceforge.net/[/url]) for reasons not related to fog. It runs in widows with no install, in its config I had to put this…
BOOTFILE=undionly.kpxe
NEXTSERVER=10.95.95.100maybe try and run it on a the above little dhcp server which runs on windows with out an install and see if its a fog or dhcp issue.
