Boot problem

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi Cedric,

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006, Cedric Janssens wrote:

> On boot, I have
> 
> Intel LanDESK Service Agent, version 1.87, EPRO-10+/100 PCI 1.87MPD
> Copyright Intel.....

I presume the above is PXE, right?  It's not some other type of network
booting I presume.  That could cause issues.

Also, if you have changed the IP address of your server since installation,
you might need to run

	sudo ltsp-update-kernels

> I'd like to know where is the problem.
> I'd like to check if DHCP server is running on Edubuntu Server

on the command line running 
	"ps aux" will list all running processes
	"ps aux |grep dhcp" will list all running processes with dhcp in
	                    the name

You should also be able to monitor the requests and replies in by looking
on the server at the log file /var/log/daemon.log.  A new line should
appear for each dhcp request and response.

> I'd like to know if TFTP server is running on Edubuntu Server

You can install either the tftp or tftp-hpa tftp clients and try
downloading the image yourself.  Actually I seem to recall that tftp client
is already installed.  You should be able to download the image from the
server from the command line, just to see that tftp server is answering.
There is no visible tftp process generally (it is started by inetd only
when a connection comes in).

> I'd like to check if my Edubuntu Fresh Install has given a IP to this station

See above logs on dhcp server.  You can confirm for certain by checking the
mac address of the station and watching for it specifically in that file.

> I'd like to check if there was a tftp connection

You could probably use tcpdump to do this I guess.  If you do something
like:
	tcpdump -i eth0 

all packets reaching that interface (eth0) should be spat out.  You could
look for tftp stuff on UDP port 69.  You might need to install the tcpdump
package, I'm not certain if it's there by default.

Gavin