Re: [Thinstation-general] Thinstation and gPXE

[Martin Z. <Mar...@t-...>]

> The loop is stopped and no more cannot "load image" error message.
>
> It goes through and load up and get an ip address, give a 
> BOOTIF=01......, then
>
> SYSUUID= ffffff.......
>
> Then I get;
>
> TFTP prefix:
>
> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default   ok
>
> Could not find kernel image: vmlinuz
>
> Boot:
>
> Then cursor starts blinking and stops there. Does not go beyond the 
> "boot:" prompt
>

does not find it, cause it is not there...

Two things I need to mention to you;

The first is that what I find in the 
Thinstation\Thinstation-2.2\Thinstation-2.2\kernel folder is a 
*_vmlinuz-2.6.16.5_*


that's not what you need.
>
> I copied and pasted this straight into my tftpdroot folder and it is 
> showing as vmlinuz-2.6.16.5 (i.e with the numbers)
>
you need a "vmlinuz" without these numbers. (But I do not think, 
removing the extension will do: you need the "vmlinuz", that thinstation 
creates for you.
look in this folder after successful "./build":        
"thinstation-2.2.2f/boot-images/syslinux" There you find "vmlinuz" and 
"initrd".

> The initrd that I found was initrd.devices in the boot-images intrd 
> folder (is that the correct one?
>

No, it  must be "initrd" without  ".devices"  -> look at  
"Thinstation-2.2.2f/boot-images/syslinux". But it should be in 
"boot-images/intrd"  folder as well. If not, your "./build"-command  was 
not successful.
You could also use TS-O-MATIC to create this files, if you can't get 
build to run.

> Secondly, my DHCP user defined scope option 067 have the following 
> entries;
>
> (Option Name) 067  Boot file Name (Vendor) Standard  (Value) 
> gpxelinux.0 (Class) gPXE
>

Should be "pxelinux.0" for class gPXE (that's the bootloader, that 
parses the config file (e.g. "default") in folder "pxelinux.cfg" thus 
realising a little boot-menu, if you wish). In the chainload-document 
they made gPXE boot a script instead)

> (Option Name) 067 Boot file Name (Vendor) Standard  (Value) 
> undionly.kpxe (Class) NONE
>
And gpxelinux.0 for NONE

> I think that I have input some wrong settings in here. By the way, the 
> set up is correct as per the instructions from the chain how to
>
The chainload-instructions were written, before gpxelinux.0 (the mixture 
of the gPXE-module and the pxelinux.0-bootloader was created by it's 
authors), but you can use the module as well.
>
> Below is the output from the default text file
>
> default linux
>
> prompt 0
>
> label linux
>
>   kernel vmlinuz
>
>   append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram0 
> ramdisk_size=524288 console=ttyS3 acpi=off
>

This way files are searched on tftp-server; "use 
"initrd=http://..../initrd.bin" for www-server