vm+ipxe+pxeboot fail

[Mark Saad]

Sorry for the delay in my reply .

> On Apr 30, 2014, at 9:42 AM, amine tay <amine.tay91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark thanks for your reply,
> I have my root-path in dhcpd.conf and etc/exports.
> my dhcpd.conf : 
> 
> authoritative;
> subnet 10.28.236.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> 
>   one-lease-per-client on; 

Comment out the one lease-per-client option .
>   range 10.28.236.10 10.28.236.250;
> 
>   default-lease-time 1200;
>   max-lease-time 43200;
>   dynamic-bootp-lease-length 1200;
> 
>   option ntp-servers 10.28.236.1;
>   option broadcast-address 10.28.236.255;
>   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>   option domain-name "xxxxxxxxxxxxx";
>   option domain-search "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
>   option domain-name-servers 10.28.236.1;
> 
>   allow duplicates;
>   allow unknown-clients;
>   allow booting;
>   allow bootp;


Can you simplify this block to just serve the razor.ipxe image to any request ? So remove the fixed address and the if statement . 

> host freebsd {hardware ethernet 00:50:56:99:0b:c4; fixed-address 10.28.236.14; option root-path "/opt/razor/image/image/os/7I2RjjQvo7IkbqO4rLv6kJ";}
> if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
>   filename "razor.ipxe"; # we are in an iPXE kernel and load static script
> } else {
>   filename "undionly.kpxe"; # we are in burned in PXE and load iPXE kernel
> }
>   next-server 10.28.236.1;
> }
> 
> And the Freebsd pxeboot loader is launched by razor. 
> 


I suspect the issue is the allow duplicate and one lease per client options clashing with pxeloader  .  Is your goal here to pxe boot FreeBSD then use puppet to do a custom layout of the install ? 
> 
> 
> 2014-04-30 15:22 GMT+02:00 Mark Saad <nonesuch at longcount.org>:
>> 
>> 
>> > On Apr 30, 2014, at 4:10 AM, amine tay <amine.tay91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > Lately I had some problems, trying to get FreeBSD to PXE boot. (Actually
>> > I'm using a VMware virtual machine.) First I'm using iPXE 1.0.0 and then
>> > load and launch the FreeBSD pxeboot
>> > <http://man.freebsd.org/pxeboot>loader. But I'm getting this :
>> > http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=45901
>> > When using isc-dhcp as DHCP server I'm getting the error but when using
>> > dnsmasq everything works fine.
>> >
>> > The problem seems that the client when booting is sending 2 DHCP requests
>> > and therefore gets two different IP addresses, the first one sent by the
>> > ROM and the second one by the FreeBSD
>> > pxeboot<http://man.freebsd.org/pxeboot>loader.
>> >
>> > I found somewhere in some posts that the pxe.c file is doing a second
>> > bootprequest because it fails to get cached DHCP data from the ROM.
>> >
>> > Any help or more ideas would be appreciated.
>> 
>> It looked like you either do not have options rootpath set in dhcpd.conf , etc/exports is mis configured , the nfs server is disabled or if you have loader built with tftp support you do not have a tftp server setup / running .
>> 
>> Can you sent the dhcpd.conf the exports file off the server ?
>> 
>> Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org
>> 
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Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org