I've just gotten pxelinux working (very cool) to boot a Dell PowerEdge.
Everything is great, except for one bit. I turned on the IPAPPEND option,
and when the machine boots (configured for nfs-root, IP kernel-level
autoconf with no options) it says: "ip-config: incomplete network
configuration information".
According to the syslinux.doc file, the ipappend option appends a line to
the kernel command line similar to:
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>
According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt, the option should
look like:
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
(this is for linux 2.4.13)
If I manually add the above to an APPEND line, it boots like a champ. But
I'd like to have it work automagically.
Is this due to a change in how the linux kernel ip autoconf works, or am I
completely missing something? Is there an easy way to change that to be
more like:
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:::off
or even
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>::eth0:off
?
Thanks,
-Joe Patterson, CCNP, CISSP
Senior Security Engineer
The Asgard Group
(954)343-4370 x102
jpatterson@asgardgroup.com
Everything is great, except for one bit. I turned on the IPAPPEND option,
and when the machine boots (configured for nfs-root, IP kernel-level
autoconf with no options) it says: "ip-config: incomplete network
configuration information".
According to the syslinux.doc file, the ipappend option appends a line to
the kernel command line similar to:
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>
According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt, the option should
look like:
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
(this is for linux 2.4.13)
If I manually add the above to an APPEND line, it boots like a champ. But
I'd like to have it work automagically.
Is this due to a change in how the linux kernel ip autoconf works, or am I
completely missing something? Is there an easy way to change that to be
more like:
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:::off
or even
ip=<client-ip>:<boot-server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>::eth0:off
?
Thanks,
-Joe Patterson, CCNP, CISSP
Senior Security Engineer
The Asgard Group
(954)343-4370 x102
jpatterson@asgardgroup.com