booting thin clients and firestarter

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, DB Clinton wrote:

> 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]

> >         tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep DHCP

> 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

A dhcp boot normally looks like this for us:

Feb  1 08:18:57 brooks dhcpd[6450]: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:02:a5:77:46:6a via eth0
Feb  1 08:18:58 brooks dhcpd[6450]: DHCPOFFER on 87.42.170.159 to 00:02:a5:77:46:6a via eth0
Feb  1 08:18:58 brooks dhcpd[6450]: DHCPREQUEST for 87.42.170.159 (87.42.170.254) from 00:02:a5:77:46:6a via eth0
Feb  1 08:18:58 brooks dhcpd[6450]: DHCPACK on 87.42.170.159 to 00:02:a5:77:46:6a via eth0
Feb  1 08:18:58 brooks in.tftpd[21065]: tftp: client does not accept options

do you see all five of those lines in /var/log/syslog?

> > 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.

Any thoughts on how that happened?  I would have thought you can't have had
booting working ever without at least one of those being in place.

Gavin