Re: [Unattended] PXE Boot problems - eth0 not found

[Michael De G. <mic...@gm...>]

seems like the network card is not recognized by the drivers on the
bootdisk. The reason you cajn boot via the network etc is that it works
differently, by using the on the NIC built-in PXE-stack.. which is obviously
compatible with the nic in question. But after it starts loading the
bootdisk, you need the correct drivers, which u seem to lack

On 10/23/07, paul kelly <ke...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi
> This maybe a bit of a newbie question, but I am having much trouble
> getting Unattended working.
>
> I have setup a DHCP and TFTP server as per this post:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/una...@li.../msg00521.html
> (tried with both tftfd32 and DHCP Turbo)
>
> The target machine performs a network boot ok, gets an IP address from my
> DHCP server, downloads pxelinux.0 then when loading pxelinux, finally ends
> with the messages:
> ...lets try DHCP...
> *** eth0 not found
> *** eth1 not found
> *** eth2 not found
> Failed to obtain DHCP lease
> *** dropping to shell
>
> Currently the root of my tftp server points the
> unattended/bootdisk/tftpboot - which contains the files pxelinux.0,
> initrd, bxImage and pxelinux.cfg/default
>
> There is a post that suggests (
> http://www.mail-archive.com/una...@li.../msg06315.html)
> that suggests an new boot-cd from here will help. http://unattended.technikz.de/index.php/Main_Page
>
> But I'm lost as what I should do with the boot-cd files ua-0.5.kernel,
> ua-0.5.root - or how these relate to what is currently in tftpboot
>
> Strangely, I get very similar behaviour when I try things booting from USB
> - using these instructions
> http://unattended.sourceforge.net/faq.php#8_2
>
> Some error: eth0 not found ... etc. So since the USB boot disk also uses
> syslinux - is this the same issue??
>
> Maybe - I force it to use a particular IP, and to map the Z drive to a
> particluar IP??
>
> Really appreciate any help. BTW the target machine is a dell D420 (has no
> CD to boot from)
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
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