[mythtv-users] (OT) Diskless front end no longer boots.

[Chris Rouch]

On 9/27/07, clemens at dwf.com <clemens at dwf.com> wrote:
> > > I have a diskless mythfrontend that has been working just fine.
> > > It runs Fedora6, and DOES receive updates from the current FC6 release
> > >  (which has probably caused the problem).
> > >
> > > It has been working just fine till I had a minor problem (well the screen
> > > went
> > > black),- something is killing X11, and instead of logging in from another
> > > machine
> > > and restarting X11, I just rebooted.
> > >
> > > Bad move.  The machine will no longer boot.
> > > I see the DHCP messages which have the correct IP addresses for the
> > > source/destination
> > > but these are followed by:
> > >
> > >     TFTP.
> > >     PXE-T01: File not found
> > >     PXE-E3B: TFTP Error - File not found
> > >     PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
> > > No Bootable devices -- insert boot disk and press any key.
> > >
> > > Any Ideas?
> > > I can reinstall the diskless boot stuff, but wont have time for several
> > > days.
> > > Seems to be a TFTP problem, but I can say 'tftp mythtv'  on the server
> > > machine
> > > and it responds with a prompt, so that seems to be working.  The fact that
> > > I
> > > see
> > > the DHCP messages would seem to imply that the ethernet is up and running,
> > > so I dont know where to look.  Nothing in /tftpboot nor /diskless on the
> > > server
> > > seem to be changed, but thats harder to determine for sure.
> > >
> > > Hopefully, someone else has had this problem (and solved it) and can point
> > > me
> > > in
> > > the right direction.
> > >
> > > --
> > >                                         Reg.Clemens
> > >                                         reg at dwf.com
> > >
> >
> > Sorry to reply without an answer to your problem but did you use
> > system-config-netboot to setup your system? I've tried this on FC5 and 6
> > and it hasn't worked for me. It will boot but kernel panic in the middle
> > of the boot when it can't mount something.
> >
> Yes I used it with fc6, and I had no problems.
> I know I found one patch to the script, but other than that, no problems.

I'm coming to this a bit late, so maybe you've already fixed it. If
not, try this:

Edit /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and set

server_args             = -s /tftpboot -v -v -v

Then "service xinetd restart" and try again. The extra -v's should get
tftpd to log to /var/log/messages which file it can't find. This is
for Fedora, and you may not need so many -v's, but the above works for
me.

Regards,

Chris