booting thin clients and firestarter

[DB Clinton]

On Feb 3, 2008 3:32 PM, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:

> > rtl8201_read_mode: Medialink on 100Mbs full duplex searching for server
> (DHCP)...no IP adress [repeat until fed up]
>
> It seems that the DHCP is the problem then.
>
> Are you certain there's a good network link between the thin client server
> (and its dhcp server) and the thin client?  Can you start this running:
>
>         tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep DHCP
>
> and then boot a client.  If the DHCP request makes it you should get a
> line
> like
>        Feb  3 13:12:35 robin dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:1d:d9:3e:da:eb
> via eth0
>
> where the mac address shown is that of your thin client.  If you don't get
> that, there's some loss of connectivity between server and client.


Here's the output:
Feb  3 15:54:15 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:2a:43:ae:30:94 via eth1
Feb  3 15:54:15 edubuntu dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.245 to
00:2a:43:ae:30:94 via eth1
I got a bit confused because one of the kids must have tried to boot my
upstairs computer too at the same time so I was getting discoveries and
offers to and from both...but in any case, there is definitely connectivity
and the MAC addresses are correct.


>
> > > and make sure pxelinux.0, nbi.img exist in /opt/ltsp/i386/.
> >
> > They were both in /opt/ltsp/i386/boot/. I copied them to /opt/ltsp/i386/
> and
> > ran dhcp3-server restart but no change on the client boot.
>
> My mistake, those files don't need to be in the chroot, they need to be in
> the tftp server directory, that is /var/lib/tftpboot/, so you should have
>
>        /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/nbi.img
>        /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0


pxelinux.0 and nbi.img were actually not in that directory either. I copied
them there but still no results.

>
>
> You might as well remove the copies you made above.


Thanks.

>
>
> Gavin
>
>
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