On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 08:33:47PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
>
> when DHCP server is configured to send bootfile option with iPXE script
> then debian-installer fails with following "red" error:
<snip/>
> Debian installer should not try to always process DHCP bootfile option
> as it does not have to contain Debian preseed file...
That is why Debian-Installer manual has this
<quote from="https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/armhf/apbs02.html.en#preseed-dhcp";>
B.2.5. Using a DHCP server to specify preconfiguration files
It's also possible to use DHCP to specify a preconfiguration file to
download from the network. DHCP allows specifying a filename. Normally
this is a file to netboot, but if it appears to be an URL then
installation media that support network preseeding will download the file
from the URL and use it as a preconfiguration file. Here is an example of
how to set it up in the dhcpd.conf for version 3 of the ISC DHCP server
(the isc-dhcp-server Debian package).
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 3) = "d-i" {
filename "http://host/preseed.cfg";;
}
Note that the above example limits this filename to DHCP clients that
identify themselves as "d-i", so it will not affect regular DHCP clients,
but only the installer. You can also put the text in a stanza for only
one particular host to avoid preseeding all installs on your network.
</quote>
>
> Due to this bug booting Debian installer from iPXE setup is broken.
:-)
Please note that there is difference
between "bug" and "does not work I expect it to work"
>
> On http://boot.oskarcz.net/ is running such iPXE setup. You can easily
> reproduce this problem by starting iPXE in qemu and trying to start
> installation of Debian.
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net user,bootfile=http://boot.oskarcz.net/
>
I think that bugreporter is missing that there are *2* DHCP requests.
One from a bootROM as iPXE and the other DHCP request by Debian-Installer.
(Hence the "if statement" in the manual ( quoted above ) that should go
into DHCP server configuration)
On "CDROM boot" or "USBstick boot" there is the same Debian-Installer code
that does network configuration, which uses DHCP.
Advice: Networksniff (tcpdump, wireshark, tshark) the whole installation.
Pay special attention to the DHCP request by Debian-Installer which
can be recognisted on "d-i". Check that the DHCP reply as the URL
of the wanted preseed file. [1]
Please report the results to this bugreport.
( Keep 848597@bugs.debian.org in the loop )
Groeten
Geert Stappers
[1] If not, come back with "My setup work does not work"
(or other wording which saves "bug" for later.)
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