[ale] Using PXE to boot Live Ubuntu CD

[Jeb Barger]

I havent solved the issue yet.  This is a windows network and using windows
dhcp :-(  ..  Both of those options are not set, should they be?

Jeb

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:48 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:

> Sorry I'm late to the conversation and apologies if it's already been
> covered. What's your next-server and option root-path entries in
> dhcpd.conf?
>
> regards,
> William
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:12 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > On 07/23/2010 01:14 PM, Jeb Barger wrote:
> > > I have having some issues with a PXE boot of Ubunto 10.04 Live CD, and
> I was
> > > hoping someone could spot my error.
> > >
> > > The NSF Server works correctly.  I can mount the nfs directories from
> > > different computers on the network.  Here is a copy of my exports file:
> > >
> > > /srv
> > > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)<http://10.0.0.0/8%28fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check%29>
> > > /srv/images
> > > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)<http://10.0.0.0/8%28fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check%29>
> > > /srv/images/Ubuntu1004
> > > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)<http://10.0.0.0/8%28fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check%29>
> > >
> > >
> > > However, after it goes through the pxe boot, I get the error "mount
> call
> > > failed - server replied: No Such file or directory".   I copied the
> entire
> > > Live Cd into the folder /srv/images/Ubuntu1004 as per the instructions.
>  I
> > > also copied the files/directories to the pxe server as per
> instructions.
> > > Here's the pxe menu command:
> > >
> > > LABEL Ubuntu
> > >
> > > kernel /tftpboot/images/ubuntu/vmlinuz
> > >
> > > append boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=10.101.40.8:
> /srv/images/Ubuntu1004
> > > initrd=/tftpboot/images/ubuntu/initrd.lz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What did I do wrong?
> >
> > Hmm. Nothing jumps out as wrong. I'll look at my setup on Wednesday and
> > see if it differs from your somwhow.
> >
>
>
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