TFTP boot on Soekris!

peque · 2006-08-08 20:24:06

Hey AF!

I'm trying to set up an Soekris net4801 with arch linux. I have setup the TFTP and DHCP like this - but now I' m ended up with this error:
The curser just blinks in the upper left corner - spelling trying to load pxelinux 0.2.11

Everything else i going well - except when I look in the log file - I get this error:
Arch in.tftpd[10258] tftp: client does not accept options

My config for DHCP-server is like this:
option domain-name "pbj-design.dk";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.2.5;
allow booting;
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;

default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;

subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.2.200 192.168.2.220;
option broadcast-address 192.168.2.255;
option routers 192.168.2.5;
}

host aladin {
filename "pxelinux.0";
hardware ethernet 00:00:24:C6:A0:FC;
server-name "192.168.2.11";
next-server 192.168.2.11;
fixed-address 192.168.2.201;
}

I have earliere tried this on Debian - but there was also an conf. file for tftp - I cannot seem to find this! So could some one telle me how to do this!

I' m trying to boot the minimax-netboot.image so that I'll be able to install archLinux on the machine!

Thanks

cactus · 2006-08-08 23:03:26

umm...isn't the soerkis a i586 chip?
That's not going to work with the general arch distribution. As yoda is wont to say, "i686 it is."

peque · 2006-08-09 05:20:44

Well Its a Single chip AMD SC1000 - 233mhz CPU
The manual says the Chipset is integrated into SC100

And after what I can see tell from the different sites and so on - its a i386!

So that would be possible or what???

user · 2006-08-09 07:19:57

my case, it is not .conf, but shell script (/etc/rc.d/tftpd)

#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/sbin/in.tftpd`
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting TFTPD"
# [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -s /var/tftpboot
[ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -s /tftpboot
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
add_daemon in.tftpd
stat_done
fi
;;
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping TFTPD"
[ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
rm_daemon in.tftpd
stat_done
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0

peque · 2006-08-09 07:26:52

Well - it should still be working with soekris /minimax - so that the install can be performed. After what I can read from Minimax - they have a default setup for Arch - That would be nice

tomk · 2006-08-09 07:38:27

peque wrote:

And after what I can see tell from the different sites and so on - its a i386!
So that would be possible or what???

Not possible with standard Arch, which is strictly i686. Someone posted recently about starting an i386 port - search the forum and see how he's getting on.

peque · 2006-08-09 08:13:18

Its is about the minimax installation!

and I'm trying to make it work and afterwards setting up an Wiki about it

tomk · 2006-08-09 12:11:38

peque wrote:

I'm trying to set up an Soekris net4801 with arch linux.

peque wrote:

And after what I can see tell from the different sites and so on - its a i386!

Arch + i386 does not work, regardless of how you try to install it. No doubt minimax has its uses, but it can't change that fact.

syamajala · 2006-08-10 01:42:50

besides the fact that arch won't work your dhcpd config file is also wrong...

here is an example:
http://genesis.blogdns.net/dhcpd.conf
in case you decide to try some other distro and wanna setup this stuff.

pxelinux.0 is served from the root of the tftp server.

peque · 2006-08-18 06:58:29

About the dhcpd.conf worked quite OK - the problem was the bootimage. Minimax wasn't able to get loaded on this machine - so instead I tried with the debian netboot image - and that went quite well.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-08-08 20:24:06

TFTP boot on Soekris!

#2 2006-08-08 23:03:26

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

#3 2006-08-09 05:20:44

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

#4 2006-08-09 07:19:57

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

#5 2006-08-09 07:26:52

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

#6 2006-08-09 07:38:27

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

#7 2006-08-09 08:13:18

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#8 2006-08-09 12:11:38

Re: TFTP boot on Soekris!

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#10 2006-08-18 06:58:29

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