[Ltsp-discuss] Re: Work station(s) will not boot (Barry Torgerson)

[<ja...@ti...>]

Hi

> About 2-3 wks. ago, I requested help re the W/Ss not booting up. Because 
> of some hardware problems w/my home system, I couldn't get back to the 
> list for a follow-up. Any way, the W/S(s) get the usual rom messages, 
> they show the IP address(es),
> and then booting the kernel...and that's where it ends, i.e., with a 
> bunch of dots. I've made sure that the tftp-server is installed, 
> however, using a suggestion that Jim M. gave me(netstat -anp | grep ":69 
> "), I get nothing, nada. I did run the same command against  port 25 and 
> the system said it was listening. So...the tftp server is not running! 
> (even tho it's supposedly been activated)
> Question: how do I get it started? I'm attaching two of the 
> files(dhcpd.conf and /etc/xinet.d/tftp) for analysis or ? The system is 
> a "stock" RH9.0 install, one gig of memory, one on-board NIC, and one 
> add-on NIC, 120-gig H/D, etc.

tftp does not 'run' it is started on demand. Use the redhat-config tools
to check tftp is installed and enabled (xinet config)

You can't do that with RH9, it wont work if you try!
> #	server_args		= -s /tftpboot
  ^^^^

then check you can tftp your server and get the kernel
Then continue with LTSP

James