PXE Boot issue - default.ipxe permssion denied
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Did you ever try to download ‘/default.ipxe’ (WITH slash!) from another PC??
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[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 44487, member: 28116”]Did you ever try to download ‘/default.ipxe’ (WITH slash!) from another PC??[/quote]
Good Point. Just tried this and it fails…Error on server ??? Connect request failed
I’m guessing that the OSX Tftp server does attempt to get from the root directory but because it’s outside /private/tftpboot it fails. I’ll try moving my tftp default directory to /tftpboot but that will probably fail for the same reason I imagine… -
OK tried setting the default to /tftpboot and it had no effect - same problem occurs. If I read it right, reading the [URL=‘https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tftpd.8.html’]man page for tftpd[/URL] it looks like using “/” in the file name will definitely get refused by the OSX tftp server unfortunately. Can’t quite see a way around this.
Edit: Success! But nervous of the cost. I fixed it by allowing the TFTP server access to “/” and making a symlink there to /tftpboot/default.ipxe. But that does allow TFTP access to the root directory of my OSX server…as I’m the only one imaging perhaps I’ll turn off TFTP access unless I’m using it…
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Great to hear. No need to open up your whole system and symlink files if you go ahead and build you own custom undionly.kpxe binary… [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/build-ipxe-from-source.10152/[/url]
Follow those steps. Maybe it’s a coincidence but in this post Tom suggests building the embedded script without the leading slash!!
Maybe Tom can tell us why the official binaries are build with ‘/default.ipxe’…
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They were not built with the leading slash. All it does is chain to default.ipxe in 1.2.0. Most systems worked fine but on occasion some systems what the protocol implicitly defined which is what you see now on the development fog.
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I am having the same issue with the default.ipxe permission denied error. I have gotten one client to successfully boot and inventory. It got the error but booted on the next try. I have had four more though that fail no matter what. I am new to fog and it is a fresh install on ubuntu 12.04. Is there any answer on fixing this issue?
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@datastream It’s weird that it’s inconsistent… Are the ones that succeeded and the ones that failed the same model or different models?
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They are all the same model. I tried a couple more and I can only get the one to PXE boot. The rest give me that same error.
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@datastream What’s different about that one? Something special about that port on the switch? Is there a difference in BIOS settings?
Also, the problem you’re describing smells a lot like an IP conflict.
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Well that was dumb of me. I rebooted the server and everything is working now.
