Subject: pxe boot problems
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/13/2004 01:34:40
Hi Everyone,

I'm having some trouble booting via PXE Boot/NFS. The client is able to 
grab the pxe-bootloader via TFTP and does the countdown. Then...

PXE BIOS Version 2.1
Using PCI device at bus 0 device 19 function 0
Ethernet address a:b:c:d:e:f
net_open: client addr: 192.168.1.214
net_open: subnet mask: 255.255.0.0
net_open: gateway 192.168.1.1
net_open: server addr: 192.168.1.110
no rootpath, no nfs
open netbsd: Device not configured
boot: Device not configured
Boot fail


... I have this in dhcpd.conf...

class "pxe-clients-ia32" {
         match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20)
                  = "PXEClient:Arch:00000";
         filename "pxeboot_ia32.bin";
         option root-path "192.168.1.110:/var/export/root" ;
}

... and the exports ...

# showmount -e 192.168.1.110
Exports list on 192.168.1.110:
/var/export/swap                   192.168.0.0
/var/export/root                   192.168.0.0
/usr                               192.168.0.0
/home                              192.168.0.0


In /var/export/root on 192.168.1.110, there is a netbsd-1.6ZI kernel 
etc, same as the one booting this machine.

Any idea what might be going wrong?

Regards,

Louis