[ale] Using PXE to boot Live Ubuntu CD

[William Fragakis]

Sorry I'm late to the conversation and apologies if it's already been
covered. What's your next-server and option root-path entries in
dhcpd.conf?

regards,
William

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 11:12 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 07/23/2010 01:14 PM, Jeb Barger wrote:
> > I have having some issues with a PXE boot of Ubunto 10.04 Live CD, and I was
> > hoping someone could spot my error.
> > 
> > The NSF Server works correctly.  I can mount the nfs directories from
> > different computers on the network.  Here is a copy of my exports file:
> > 
> > /srv
> > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)
> > /srv/images
> > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)
> > /srv/images/Ubuntu1004
> > 10.0.0.0/8(fsid=0,async,no_root_squash,ro,no_subtree_check)
> > 
> > 
> > However, after it goes through the pxe boot, I get the error "mount call
> > failed - server replied: No Such file or directory".   I copied the entire
> > Live Cd into the folder /srv/images/Ubuntu1004 as per the instructions.  I
> > also copied the files/directories to the pxe server as per instructions.
> > Here's the pxe menu command:
> > 
> > LABEL Ubuntu
> > 
> > kernel /tftpboot/images/ubuntu/vmlinuz
> > 
> > append boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=10.101.40.8:/srv/images/Ubuntu1004
> > initrd=/tftpboot/images/ubuntu/initrd.lz
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What did I do wrong?
> 
> Hmm. Nothing jumps out as wrong. I'll look at my setup on Wednesday and
> see if it differs from your somwhow.
>