Re: Boot issue on older hardware using buster

[roman.meier@gismap.ch]

Hi Wolfgang,

I uncommented the line and rebuilt the pxe menu. 

Now, when I boot the client I get the following error:

Negotiation: ..Error: Unknown error returned by server. Server said: Export unknown
Exiting.

Could it be that the script is somehow broken?

Kind regards,
Roman

> On 03/15/2021 4:06 PM Wolfgang Schweer <w.schweer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>  
> Hi Roman,
> 
> [ roman.meier@gismap.ch, 2021-03-15 ]
> 
> > I was able to create the new image for i386 devices. I also did the 
> > changes using ldapvi but it seems to me that only devices connected to 
> > secondary subnets are handled here.
> 
> Yes. These are the dedicated LTSP networks.
>  
> > Currently I'm interested in switching to the i386 kernel for the 
> > primary subnet only.
> > 
> > I therefore adjusted the following two files:
> > 
> > /var/lib/tftpboot/debian-edu/default-diskless.cfg
> > /var/lib/tftpboot/debian-edu/default-thin.cfg
>  
> If I remember correctly, you need to uncomment the #ltsparch=i386 entry 
> in /etc/debian-edu/pxeinstall.conf and then run 'debian-edu-pxeinstall' 
> to regenerate the files below /var/lib/tftpboot/debian-edu/ for the 
> change from amd64 to i386 for LTSP clients to take effect on the 
> backbone subnet.
> 
> Wolfgang