Hi,
now i'm quite desperate, so i'm writting here, beacause i have no i
idea what am i doing wrong.
I'm trying to do diskless client. I've been reading almost every
tutorial i found but everything was useless.
PLEASE HELP ME.
This is exhausting description what am i doing:
So, I'm trying to do client diskless linux workstation. In fact my
server is configured as dhcp server. Server is not problem, because it
was already configured and used before we get new NIC rtl8139D. There
are some netboot images, that were created by former emplyees and i
don't know how they were created, but they work for rtl8029 and for
3C509, so i can use them for testing. Diskless clients with these NICs
and that netboot images works perfectly so i can't say the server is
configured bad. Server is using dhcp server with tftp set, nfs is also
set as it has to be.
But now we i'm trying to do netboot image for new NIC (rtl8139D)
and i can't figure out how.
So first i compile new kernel for new client. At the end there will
be paste from config file, so you can check it. Kernel version is
2.2.25. I did't use modules suport so everything should be in kernel. I
did make dep and then make bzImage.
{Also server runs on this kernel version (sur not the same
configuration) and also on the same rtl8139D and everything works fine,
so there is no problem with kernel version and NIC .}
Second i get zrom image from rom-o-matic for rtl9139 version :
eb-5.2.2-rtl8139b.zrom and burned this image on EPROM and put it into
the NIC, i tested it and NIC is looking for DHCP server so it should be
ok. Then i change MAC address on dhcp server.
Second i get netboot utility version netboot-0.9.8. I installed, it
everything looks good. I did netboot image : /usr/local/bin/mknbi-linux
bzImage newImage
I put newImage on the server (because it is not compiled on
server;) and set up dhcp server to use this newImage for that client and
restarted dhcpd. In fact there are only two comps conected.
So when client starts booting it gets this newImage by tftp, i see
it downloading. Then prints on the screen :
Linux Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.9.8 (netboot)
Copyright (C) 1996,1997 G. Kuhlmann and M. Gutschke
Copyright (C) 1995 - 2003 G. Kuhlmann
and then it halts................
So where is the problem ???????????????????? What am I doing wrong??
Size of my newImage is at about 534016b, maybe it is big. So I tryed
to compile kernel as zImage with module support, and i compile into
kernel only necesary things so the final newImage was at about 440000b,
but it halts on the same place. Also I tryed to make newImage with
initrd created after compiling with mkinitrd and then i used command i
faound on the netboot.courceforge.net : mknbi-linux -x -d ram -i rom -r
initrd.gz -k bzImage -o newImage
I was only confused why is initrd.gz and how to create it. i tried
gzip, but maybe i was wrong. Also my newImage was very big 960000b, but
client halts after that copyright stuff.
I also tried rdev newImage /dev/nfs, but i think it is not importand,
because, i think, mknbi-linux uses it implicitly. (also it didn't work it)
So please help me how to debug it, to see where is problem, or just
tell me, what am i doing wrong, give me link on the webpage where it is
described and it works. Maybe i can't use this version of netboot with
this kernel 2.2.25, but i realy don't know. When i look into the
/var/log/messages i see that newImage was downloaded and that is last
sign of communication between server and client.
Thank you, for your advice
ing. Milan Chudik
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