FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Hello, I am trying to get LTSP working and i nearly had it tight and now PXE boot has broken. The clinet is timing out on TFTP when trying to PXE boot. Does anyone have any thoughts please? Thanks
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Must be nearly 10 years since I tried LTSP... Does it get DHCP? that's the first step in the process. Have you got more than one DHCP server on the physical network segment? Rob
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 Infact i have it working on another machine. I does get the correct IP and we have one DHCP. It just seems to be this box it doesnt like
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Does it have an unusual network card? If it gets 1st stage DHCP and then fails then the most likly cause ( if other machines are fine) is a driver issue for the NIC. Rob
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Yeah that's STOCK but you need to check the boot image in tftpboot supports it ( can't see it not supporting it ) What actualy happens? As i say it's a fair old time since I last used ltsp ( although I did use tftpboot for booting a MYTHTV diskless frontend last year) . Rob 1
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 It starts to PXE boot and just says TFTP...... Then it times out. How do i check if it supports it please?
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Any TFTP loggs. LTSP project should list somwhere the drivers in the build, it may be another pice of hardware that's not supported too. Have you tried a third different system? Rob
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Have you checked this page? Troubleshooting-Wont_Boot < ltsp < TWiki
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 Any TFTP loggs. LTSP project should list somwhere the drivers in the build, it may be another pice of hardware that's not supported too. Have you tried a third different system? Rob Where are the logs please? sorry i am no good with Linux. I have tried a 3rd system with an intel card and that works ok. Have you checked this page? Troubleshooting-Wont_Boot < ltsp < TWiki None of those errors are what i have. It doesnt even try to download the image Thanks
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 google LTSP 8139... May give you a heads up. although this post is 6 years old. Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Realtek 8139D - hard to work
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Actualy that's probably not pertinent. Is PXE startign on the card? Is there any oprions for the Network Boot in the Bios? Rob
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 I have enabled PXE boot in the BIOS, This image is as far as i get. Thanks for the help
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Logs in /var/log/ messages is the place to start, you may have a tftp log as well depending on how syslog is running. what distro is it on?
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop. I cant ping the clinet no.
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Have you got a lan card with a different chipset you can try? rulling out any other hardware. Have you tried it in the same network socket as the other to rule out any network wiredness? Do you have a similar machien you can try to rule out this one just being odd.
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 On the same socket i have had 3 different types of machine on. This is the only one that gives the issue. I have got another identical machine and that gives the issue as well. I have found this - PXE-E32 TFTP open timeout how do you increase the block size please?
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Good question, you need to find the tftp config , normaly that would have ben an xinetd service but that may have been replaced now, there may be a tftp config fiel in /etc/ worth a look. I can have a look tonight on my laptop, none of our ubuntu servers here have tftp on them. Rob 1
cpjitservices Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 I had that... It was missing files in the TFTP root directory on the server.....
FN-GM Posted June 21, 2012 Author Posted June 21, 2012 I had that... It was missing files in the TFTP root directory on the server..... But it works fine on every other type of NIC just not this one. does surely it cant be that?
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 if your running tftpd-hpa which you probably are... cd /etc/default/ nano tftpd-hpa in the option quotes add --blocksize 512 save it and then restart tftpd /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart Installed and changed that on the laptop here and the service loaded without bombing.. Rob
twin--turbo Posted June 21, 2012 Posted June 21, 2012 Also, is the machine that's failing a different system architecture to the server and other clients? I am strugling to find a list of the supported architecture options. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall Rob
FN-GM Posted June 22, 2012 Author Posted June 22, 2012 Also, is the machine that's failing a different system architecture to the server and other clients? I am strugling to find a list of the supported architecture options. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/LTSPQuickInstall Rob Its the same. if your running tftpd-hpa which you probably are... cd /etc/default/ nano tftpd-hpa in the option quotes add --blocksize 512 save it and then restart tftpd /etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa restart Installed and changed that on the laptop here and the service loaded without bombing.. Rob Sorry to sound thick but can you tell me what to type in to save where do i put the options please? Sorry i am really new with Linux. Thanks
twin--turbo Posted June 22, 2012 Posted June 22, 2012 cd /etc/default nano tftpd-hpa lock at the last line of the file ( I think ) and there will be some quotes for options.. add in --blocksize 512 and save the file. rob 1
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