Re: Problem starting diskless workstation
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:37:11PM +0200, Valerio Pachera wrote:
>2008/10/8 nigel barker <tech@hiroshima-is.ac.jp>:
>> I'm afraid, but I had this problem many years ago before I used
>> skolelinux. It was caused by the tftp root being wrong.
>
>Now I'm sure of having only one dhcp in the net, the one of skolelinux.
>tftp seems not to work then with diskless workstations but it does it
>with thinclients.
>
>What can I do?
>It ends with the message "boot failed".
One option is to listen on the network for bootp traffic (port 68 and 69
if I recall correctly) and have wireshark (or tshark) analyze it, to
make sure the clients are fed the right set of boot information.
Another thing: You mention that one kind of setup works but another
doesn't. Is it perhaps one kind of _hardware_ that works and another
not? If possible try boot a thinclient as a diskless and vice versa, to
see if the problem follows the configuration or the hardware.
- Jonas
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