Re: DHCP/nfsroot not working
On 6 Apr 2005, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> I have an ebedded system (called coll road runner nad made by the
> german company Lippert) which I want to boot with DHCP and nfsroot.
>
> It has grub installed on its MBR on the hard disk and grub starts
> correctly and shows the menu defined in (hd0,0):/boot/grub/menu.lst.
>
> I have define one entry for nfsroot which is
>
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-ut (nfsroot)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-ut root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/crr ip=bootp rw s
> boot
> savedefault
>
> The kernel is loaded by grub, boots, brings up the eth0 interface and
> sends DHCP requests. The DHCP server replies correctly (checked with
> tcpdump) but the client seems not to see these replies. It continues
> sending DHCP requests until it times out.
>
> When I change the kernel command line to contain the complete IP
> configuration instead of using DHCP, i.e. when I replace
>
> ip=bootp
>
> by
>
> ip=192.168.84.21:192.168.84.1:192.168.84.1:255.255.255.0:crr:eth0
since it works with static ip# specified, it'd point my
finger at the dhcp server
- does dhcp.conf have "allow bootp" and "allow booting"
- i assume the dhcpd.conf file also has its mac addy listed in the
list of servers the dhcp server is trying to boot
- more pxe boot stuff
http://linux-boot.net/Boot/Network/
c ya
alvin
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