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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users PXE diskless boot fails Post 302427284 by yotamhc on Friday 4th of June 2010 12:18:02 PM
Old 06-04-2010
PXE diskless boot fails
Hi,

I am trying to setup a server for a diskless boot of a computer class (with ubuntu)
I followed the guidelines in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto

I have two computers: one is the server I installed and the other is my macbook on which I run a virtual machine (using VMWare fusion) that does the net boot. I have additional VM on it with ubuntu 10.4 installed on it for other tests. The server runs ubuntu 10.4 server and the client image for network boot is ubuntu 10.4 desktop that I previously prepared as explained in the link above on a VM on my laptop.

The problem is that after loading the kernel and initrd (and outputting many things that I can't read because it happens too fast) I get the following error:
Code:
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:0c:29:79:86:c1 mtu 1500 DHCP
[    2.775718] eth0: link up
IP-Config: no response after 60 secs - giving up
/init: .: line 3: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
[   69.073555] Kernel panic- not syncing" Attempted to kill init!
[   69.073859] Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-22-generic #35-Ubuntu
< call trace - if it can help I can grab a screenshot >

At first I thought it means that the NFS is not accessible but I was able to mount it and access its files from the other VM so it is not the problem.

I have no idea what this error practically means, I saw in some google hits that it means that the network driver is missing. However, I created the initrd file on the same VM that now tries to boot and as explained in the tutorial. I tried both ways (mkinitramfs and update-initramfs) with no success.

Anyone can help?

Thanks!
Yotam
 

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