Boot problem

[Cedric Janssens]

2006/11/8, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:
> 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.

After Googling it seems. It seems also versions prior to 0.99 are
bugged. But as it's a 1.87 should be ok.


>
> Also, if you have changed the IP address of your server since installation,
> you might need to run
>
>         sudo ltsp-update-kernels
>

I did it, but no change....

> > 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.

Well, now I know my DHCP server is ok and the P-II as for it :

Nov  8 17:46:59 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:00 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to
00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:00 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.250
(192.168.0.5) from 00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:00 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.250 to
00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:03 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:03 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to
00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:11 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0
Nov  8 17:47:11 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to
00:a0:c9:61:55:e8 via eth0



>
> > 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).


Did a "sudo apt-get install tftp-hpa" then a "tftp localhost" and got
a connection. Seems to be ok.


>
> > 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.
>

It did. as mentionned upper.


> > 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.
>


I see some tftp request from 192.168.0.250 (the IP given to the client
by dhcp3server

but no boot on client ....

http://pastebin.ca/243548

is my capture of tcpdump (sorry, some Google request from gMail, and
nntp updates from nntp client)

Cedric