[CentOS] Problem with blades that wont kickstart

Fri Apr 18 18:16:53 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Dan Hyatt wrote:
> About 15% of my blades wont kickstart.
> I checked to see, and they all seem to be 100% compatible.
>
> I currently do not own/direct access the kickstart server, I will build
> one later.
>
> Is it possible they fat fingered the MAC address of the problem blades
> when they put them into the PXE server? As I can build them from a
> locally mounted virtual CD, but cannot build from PXE
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Oh.

How do you *allow* machines to pxeboot? Where I am, the MAC address entry
is put in a special section of the DHCP configuration, and *only* MAC
addresses in that block are allowed to pxeboot.

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