I have followed everything in the fedora 14 documenation about setting up a diskless pxe boot and I can get past initialization. The kernel and initrd load fine from the tftp server. The kernel starts, then hangs after probing USB devices. The messages show that initrd does not have support for nfsroot. I think I need to better understand how to add this in when I run dracut to build the initramfs image.
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I'm attempting to set up a server for performing diskless boots here. I'm using Gentoo 2008, and have followed the instructions here:
[URL]
I've gotten to the end of the basic DHCP setup, and I can not get the server to issue addresses. I've confirmed dhcpd loads up OK, and is running in top.
Here's the contents of /etc/dhcp/dhcpd:
Code:
# Disable dynamic DNS
ddns-update-style none;
# Assume one default gateway for IP traffic will do
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I'm trying to set-up a diskless environment on my home network, based on a F12 server and one FC14 client and I have a problem that I think is related to NFS, but googling around I cannot find any solution.
Basicly the client boots correctly, gdm fires up showing the login window, but the system doesn't let me in, if I switch to console (CTRL+ALT+F2) I cannot login with both standard and super user getting a "permission denied" error.
I tryed to mount the exported fs on another computer and ls -l on the mounted dir shows both user and group set to nobody.
If i mount the exported dir on server side (i.e. mount -t nfs localhost:/...) permissions user and group shows correctly
how to to setup a PXE boot environment. The server contains a LUbuntu 10.10-installation the client is Ubuntu 10.10 Server (I didn't mix up those two...) So, everything is going fine; the client gets an ip-adres, and boots over PXE. The login-prompt is shown. Problem: I can't login. It seems my users are deleted (better not copied). Of course the system (client) works fine when I boot the system from it's harddrive. The only thing I can guess, there going something wrong with:
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I have a PXE server which installed DHCP TFTP AND NFS service. and set them up followed by [URL].
The boot process hanged here:
ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFUNDEX: No such device
ipconfig: no devices to configure
[-n eho]
. /tmp/net-eth0.conf
/init: line 3: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
...
What I did try to work around is,
1. Set portfast to all the ports connected the PXE server and client.
2. Edit pxelinux.cfg/default, try different setting in "ip=" (I did not find any menu in the internet which explain to to configure this file).
That is, the thin clients will have to get their OS image via TFTP, and their IP address via DHCP on a *wireless card* - is this possible?What spec should I ask for/search for when buying the WiFi card?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI made a diskless image against Fedora15, during the boot I found it displayed the following error message and went into emergency mode.
The error message:
Starting Relabel all filesystems, if necessary ^[[1;31maborted^[[0m because a dependency failed.^M
[ 107.607155] systemd[1]: Job fedora-autorelabel.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.^M
Starting Mark the need to relabel after reboot ^[[1;31maborted^[[0m because a dependency failed.^M
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I am currently working on a Diskless Fedora10 based PXE image that should auto login and then launch the ICA client without launching the desktop (so normal autostart will not cut it)I have got the image up and running, the clients boot correctly, autologin etc, but still launch KDE, and I was hoping replace the desktop with the ICA Client.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a mythfrontend box that boots diskless - everything works fine. However, when attempting to upgrade the kernel - grub complains about not finding a device, and the upgrade fails.How do I fix this? Other packages upgrade with no problem.
Code:
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
grub-pc linux-generic linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic linux-image-generic
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An interesting challenge involving diskless booting a PC
View 1 Replies View RelatedI currently have a debian lenny high performance cluster running seamlessly using dhcp and tftpd-hpa. All nodes are completely diskless, and i would like to keep it that way. I now would like to have a client boot over local into a full KDE desktop.
Here's the cache.
1. I would like the client to also be a node. I would like it to handle processing as the other nodes do, but this one with a full desktop, with ALL data and privileges accessible.
2. The client will have its own workstation graphics. It will need to have that driver loaded without slowing the system.
3. Client will need to be able to use its own usb, bd-rom, dvd, audio, etc. even though it will be booting into the HPC.
4. Wireless. I cannot run 70 ft of lan across an apartment. not happening.
The idea is a media center applicable "powerhouse" with high-end power and graphics for easy media editing, 3d creation, and gaming. Will also be used for webcache over all local, file sharing, and other server applications.
HPC specs:
-headnode: hp compaq p4-ht 3.2 ghz, 4x500gb, 4gb mem, gigabit ethernet, wireless-N
-nodes: 4x p4-ht 2.2 ghz, 2gb mem, no-name brand slim desktops; 2x panasonic toughbooks p4-mobile 1.8 ghz, 1.5gb mem; 3x gateway p3 unknown specs; and 1 hp 530 notebook 1.6ghz core2 duo, 1.5gb mem
-client: hp compaq core2 duo 2.13 ghz, 4gb mem, wireless n, bd-rom, 2x dvd-rom, usb 3.0 card, bluetooth, 1gb AGP nvidia geforce 6800 dual-dvi, no hd.
I need to know how to set up this PXE.
In short we are booting Centos 5.4 over PXE to a bunch of diskless clients. Once they are booted - we can login (as local root account) and RDP to windows machines using rdesktop as we require.
The next step of the project is to get user authentication to the Windows Domain controller working for the PXE image.
To do so - we continued with our physical install of Centos 5.4 (used to create the pxe image with rsync as per the wiki page for diskless clients) by following through this page. AD auth works perfect on this box (it has a local HDD install of centos obviously).
Once we rsync'd the changes over to the pxeboot location - and rebooted one of the diskless pxe clients - we get issues.
The issue is that winbind seems to start - however the file "/etc/samba/secrets.tdb" cant be read. We tried removing this file that the PXE clients use and recreating it using
touch /etc/samba/secrets.tdb
I have a strange problem for internet. My clients (winxp - S2) can't get internet.Let me explain my scenerios. Fedora 10 with lan (eth0) having direct internet from dsl model, client (XP service pack 2) can use samba shares using dhcp (wlan0) installed in Fedora 10 box. client can ping my linux box.Now problem is: client (dosbox) can ping the google ip address (i.e ping 74.125.39.106) but can't use 'ping www.google.com'. That means ping with ip works for internet from my client. My linux box can. I can use internet from FC10 but can't use iexplorer from my client to have internet. I have enable ipmasquarding in Firewall and dhcpd is running on wlan0 for dynamic ip address of my clients.Can someone suggest me what kind of problem having I? What should i do to success iexplorer for internet? what possibly am i missing?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy problem is that I can't setup a diskless environment with CentOS 5.4 (server) and CentOS 3.9 (hosts). On the host, I've recompiled the CentOS 3.9 kernel, with these mods:
- added kernel level IP autoconfiguration;
- added NFS file system support;
- added Root file system on NFS;
- added e1000 driver (the host has a gigabit network card);
Then, I have followed the guide at this link: [URL]
But in my dhcpd.conf I'he put other parameters:
ddns-update-style interim;
allow bootp;
allow booting;
subnet 192.168.195.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range192.168.195.70 192.168.195.90;
option routers192.168.195.254;
option subnet-mask255.255.255.0;
option domain-name"lnf.infn.it";
option domain-name-servers192.168.195.254;
option time-offset-18000; # Eastern Standard Time
default-lease-time21600;
max-lease-time43200;
filename"linux-install/pxelinux.0";
next-server192.168.195.254;
}
host dante79 {
option host-name"dante79";
hardware ethernet00:20:38:01:C3:7C;
fixed-address192.168.195.79;
}
i have insatlled fedora 9 on a system with xp already installed on it but when i start fedora it hangs while booting. after starting the service ANACORN it hangs and same happens with fedora 10. it hangs while starting CUPS.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFedora 12 running under VirtualBox 3.2.8 w/ Bridged networking
Host OS Windows 7
I have 3 IP addresses set up in on my Fedora 12 installation:
Directory: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
ifcfg-eth0 -> 192.168.0.170
ifcfg-eth0:0 -> 192.168.0.171
ifcfg-eth0:1 -> 192.168.0.172
Hostname is configured to host associated with 192.168.0.170 in /etc/hosts
When I reboot and execute
# ifconfig
eth0 is associated with the 172 address and the other addresses are not active. After I run
# service network restart
All of the addresses are active and associated with the correct interfaces. Content of my ifcfg files below:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 :
Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=08:00:27:0A:9D:24
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.170
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0 :
Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0:0
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.171
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
ONPARENT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:1 :
Code:
# Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0:1
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=192.168.0.172
PREFIX=24
DNS1=192.168.0.1
NAME="System eth0:1"
UUID=5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IPV6INIT=no
USERCTL=no
ONPARENT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
ONBOOT=yes
After booting:
Code:
# ifconfig
eth0 ....
Restart network:
Code:
# service network restart
. . .
# ifconfig
eth0 ....
eth0:0 ....
eth0:1 ....
Fedora 12 during boot, it shows both option as "Fedora" and "Others". I have windows xp instance installed, which is not coming after selecting "Others".
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've burnt the fedora 10 Installable Live CD on to a DVD, the initial boot/menu's works fine but after the progress bar loads the display on the next screen loaded is all out of wack bad resolution etc, I can see a mouse cursor.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI just bought a new laptop with the Intel I3 processer in it and it came with Windows 7 preloaded. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 32 bit on my old system but decided to use this opportunity to upgrade to a 64 bit OS and Fedora seemed to be a good choice. Anyways, the problem I'm having is that I am trying to run dual-boot with 7 and Fedora. I got it installed and from the grub menu, I can load both OS?s. I can boot 7 just fine but for some reason Fedora will not finish loading. It will start loading, run though several scripts and then the screen goes black like its trying to go to a splash screen but that were it stops. I tried the rescue option on the boot DVD and it pretty much did the same thing.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a server that NFS exports the /home directory out to other computers. On the desktop they all work great, but on a wireless laptop, this is where the problem occurs. The wireless enables after the person logs in, rendering the NFS export /home useless on the laptops.Is there anyway to have the wireless enable correctly on the boot so that NFS can mount properly at boot also?I'm using Fedora 11 (32bit) with a wireless router that has a security of WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES]. I could switch to some of the older versions if necessary to get this working.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI did a fresh install of Fedora Core 10 32bit on my Caompaq Presario AMD 64 laptop which originally only had Vista ultimate 64bit. When I go in to grub and choose windows I get a screen that says:
Windows failed to start...
File: windowssystem32winload.exe
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt.
I tried doing nfs mount and it doesnt work for me. The following is the output of my "showmount -e <IP>"
Export list for <IP>:
/home/apchitra/workspace *
/home/apchitra/workspace/canmore/sdk/fsroot_2038 *
I am trying to mount one of these directories from other machine and it doesnt work. Gives me the following error.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on <IP>
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on <IP>
mount: server 16.0.0.0 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /home/apchitra/workspace/canm8
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
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Something happened yesterday and now DNS is not working. I have checked /etc/resolv.conf and the settings are correct. I can ping my DNS servers and perform name lookups with dig but nothing else works. Normal applications do not work because of this.
View 3 Replies View RelatedHave tried both Mythdora 10.21 32bit and 64bit (Fedora 10)o get my wireless to work.Have looked at output from various suggested commands and logs and nothing jumps out. Would appreciate any suggestions. Have attached log with all commands identified and output. Wired ethernet works with no problem.
The router shows no connection activity on the wireless portion from the Linux box. I do have a laptop that I have connected to the router before and after attempting to connect with the Linux system.The only out of the ordinary message I see is (from dmesg):wlan0: privacy configuration mismatch and mixed-cell disabled - disassociate
----------------- uname -a command -------------------------------
[mythtv@EcsA780GM ~]$ uname -a
Linux EcsA780GM 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 01:33:24 EST 2009 x86_64
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using fedora 9 i've problems getting bittorent to work. i have an external kerio firewall but my messages seem not to get thrue. I read about port forwarding, as a way to speed up bittorent I interprete that as bundling the port series 6881 till 6999 to ferdora:6881 so all the ports are channeld to the bittorent machine and 1 port.(tcp and Udp)
that how I did set it up, but i seem not to get a lot of throughput i guess Maybe 1kb per week, I do not know if this is what is seen as a slow bittorent.... on the firewall i see a lot of messages running arround but nothing seems to advance
what can I do, verify to get this running. (I temporarly switched off fedora's firewall( internal) is there a way to structuraly test bittorent? is my forwarding rule correct? (input multiple ports to single port?
Does anybody know how to make the wireless card working on Fedora 9? I have followed the instruction from [URL] and have B43 driver installed with reset after. The driver install went fine, but where can I enable the wireless on desktop?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI installed Fedora 11 on an Acer Aspire 5516 and everything works except my networking interface card. In Windows XP it is listed as an "Atheros Ar8132 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller" and it works. In Fedora 11 it is listed as "Attansic Technology Crop. unknown (OX1062)" and does not work. I have tried the default driver "ath5k" and also downloaded madwifi and modprobed "ath-pci" but I still get the same problem. What is weird is that the wireless does work. Is this chip not supported yet in Linux?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been trying to get this card working for a couple of hours without much luck. I was excited to find the thread, but it doesn't seem to work for me for some reason. [URL]. I tried the manual setup method listed, but nothing shows up in Network Manager under wireless cards? Is there something I have to do to get it to show up? I think everything copied to /lib/firmware/b43 for me ok?
Running /sbin/lspci -nn reveals the following:
03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
I have fedora 12. xfce
My internet not working because i need to change mtu.On ubuntu, before it worked when I changed the MTU to 1400.
Fedora:
I followed the instructions:
Changing the MTU size permanently under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, enter
# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Add MTU, settings:
MTU="9000"
Save and close the file. Restart networking:
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I installed Fedora Core 12 on a Dell Latitude 610 laptop. Networking isn't working. I tried to start networking with '/etc/rc.d/init.d network start': there were no errors or warning messages, but before and afterwards, I could not ping anything.
I tried to configure and start networking with system-config-network. The ethernet network card shows up, but the activate button is greyed out.
I can ping the loopback address 127.0.0.1 after I start networking with '/etc/rc.d/init.d network start' but I don't really know what that means.
lspci tells me that my network "card" is a "NexXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express".
I know the eternt cable is good because I used it on another machine.
