Rudi Ahlers writes: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get a pxeboot server up and running, according to the > instructions on the WIKI (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup > & http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup/Menus) > > Here's my /tftpboot/pxepxelinux.cfg/default : > > > default menu.c32 > prompt 1 > timeout 300 > ONTIMEOUT local > > MENU TITLE PXE Menu > > label Dos Bootdisk > MENU LABEL ^Dos bootdisk > kernel memdisk > append initrd=images/622c.img > > LABEL CentOS 5 x86_64 > MENU LABEL ^CentOS 5 x86_64 > kernel images/centos/5/x86_64/vmlinuz > append initrd=images/centos/5/x86_64/initrd.img > ramdisk_size=100000 ksdevice=eth0 ip=dhcp url --url > http://192.168.2.250/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64 > > label linux > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 noapic acpi=of > > > Then, here's the layout for the CentOS 5 image: > > [root at intranet /]# ll /tftpboot/images/centos/5/ > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Apr 13 07:20 x86_64 -> > /home/www/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64/ > > > As you can see, I linked the folder to a Linux image on the hard > drive. Apache then advertises that folder on the LAN as follows: > http://192.168.2.250/linux/centos/5/os/x86_64 and I can browse the > folders via Firefox. > > Yet when I bootup a PC in PXE mode, it doesn't actually load the > CentOS image. I can see the PXE Menu and choose between "Dos > Bootdisk", "CentOS 5 x86_64" and "linux" (which I setup as a test). > When I load "Dos Bootdisk", I get an error: > > > Loading memdisk.... > Could not find ramdisk image:images/622c.img > boot : > > > > So, it's reading the configuration, but not loading the CentOS boot > image. /var/log/messages doesn't give my any errors on this (yes I > know how to read /var/log/messages) > Does anyone know how to get pxeboot to output debug messages to > syslog? OR,what am I doing wrong? The tutorials I got on the net are > rather vague on this. And please don't tell me to use Cobbler, I > already tried that but no one one this lists supports it. You need to have the kernel and initrd under the tftpboot directory, i.e. not symlinked. I presume /home is automounted? Your boot environment doesn't know about autofs. --------------------------------------------------------------- This message and any attachments may contain Cypress (or its subsidiaries) confidential information. If it has been received in error, please advise the sender and immediately delete this message. ---------------------------------------------------------------