[ale] Using PXE to boot Live Ubuntu CD

[William Fragakis]

I'm sure he'll be grateful for your personal assistance.

FWIW, an incorrect option root-path creates a "nfs: failed to mount"
error during PXE booting

It may be able to load the pxe image because the directory path is
defined elsewhere by the tftp configuration ( /etc/xinet.d/tftp in
Fedora-land). 

dhcpd.conf can further refine that path to the pxe image if you need
several for different uses with the filename option.

regards,
William

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 18:27 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 07/28/2010 10:54 AM, Jeb Barger wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> If you were using dhcpd, those options would affect your ability to PXE
> boot anything. Based on your first post it seems that you can
> successfully PXE boot and load the Ubuntu kernel and initrd, it's
> mounting NFS as the root filesystem that is not cooperating. I'm heading
> to Free IT Athens now (running late!) and will try to make time to poke
> at our config and get some debugging ideas for you.
>