[Bug 573975] Re: pxe image fails to boot: "Forbidden directory"

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I explain better.
At work I have a VM with ubuntu 9.10 that is an upgraded from a 9.04.
With 9.04 i had 2 working clients that do not work with 9.10 (they were old and have been replaced now).
One client was not able to boot and the other had sound problems.

Then, for testing purpose, i tried at home a copy of the same VM after upgrading to 10.04.
The result was that no clients (old and newer) were able to boot and I had the "forbidden directory" error.
Searching for the cause, I found the mentioned /etc/default/tftpd-hpa where i see the path to /srv/tftp.

In my 9.10 VM (still in use), that folder do not exist and in my 10.04 test VM, I have both /srv/tftp and /var/lib/tftpboot.
But that is not the cause of the "forbidden directory" error in my case.
I wanted tell about the changed folder because that was not obvious to me (I still have /var/lib/tftpboot) and knowing that, maybe can help...
I do not know the situation on a fresh (not upgraded) 10.04 installation.

How I had say, the cause of my problem was the mentioned TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure" that was missing in my 10.04 after the upgrade.
After adding that option, the "forbidden directory" error had gone and my (newer) clients boot with 10.04

For the old amd K6-2 not booting...I found that upgrading to 64Mb of ram, make it able to boot again (compiz is automatically disabled if it can't be run).
The other (an old notebook) now have not the sound problems that I had with 9.10

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pxe image fails to boot: "Forbidden directory"
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