Freebsd pxeboot problem

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +0000, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote:
> Hi,
> Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the 
> Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets 
> downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper 
> server path and gateway ip.
> 
> It is always falling to the default /pxeroot server path (as programmed in 
> the pxe.c file) and don't know where it gets the gateway ip as 192.168.102.1
> 
> Display I get
> ========
> pxe_open: server addr: "This is proper. The Dhcp/Tftp server ip"
> pxe_open: server path: /pxeroot ----------------------- default server 
> path. This is not what I defined in my dhcpd.conf
> pxe_open: gateway ip: 192.168.102.1 --------------- Don't know where it got 
> it from. This is not what I defined in my dhcpd.conf
<snip>

What is defined in your dhcpd.conf file?  I think you may need two
perameters:

option root-path "nfsserver:/diskless/root/path/"
next-server yourserver

You may not need next-server if it's the same machine as the DHCP
server.

Nathan
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