Problem with linuxpxe

Toky93 · 10-01-2019, 01:23 AM

Hello everyone,

I’m facing an issue with the provisioning of some bare metal servers…The servers are old HP proliant G7 from 2010.

Here’s the issue :
When i’m booting on PXE, the DHCP gave me correctly the good IP et It loads the pxelinux.o file as well.
After, It tries to load the configuration’s file through pxelinux.cfg(GUID, Mac and default) but ends in with this error :

TFTP prefix : bios/
Unable to locate configuration file

So, I don’t understand why It can’t locate the config file. The folder pxelinux.cfg contains the correct file with the correct mac-address created by Foreman.

Maybe, I didn’t create correctly the host in Foreman ? I set PXELinux BIOS as PXE Loader.

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

Kinds

evo2 · 10-01-2019, 02:36 AM

Hi,

I almost always have problems like this when setting up or re-configuring a pxeboot server. Most of the time I find the issue by looking at the tftp server logs (sometimes need to make tftp more verbose).

HTH,

Evo2.

marismala · 10-01-2019, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toky93

Hello everyone,

I’m facing an issue with the provisioning of some bare metal servers…The servers are old HP proliant G7 from 2010.

Here’s the issue :
When sambad i’m booting on PXE, the DHCP gave me correctly the good IP et It loads the pxelinux.o file as well.
After, It tries to load the configuration’s file through pxelinux.cfg(GUID, Mac and default) but ends in with this error :

TFTP prefix : bios/
Unable to locate configuration file

So, I don’t understand why It can’t locate the config file. The folder pxelinux.cfg contains the correct file with the correct mac-address created by Foreman.

Maybe, I didn’t create correctly the host in Foreman ? I set PXELinux BIOS as PXE Loader.

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

Kinds

PXE boot goes from parent of tftp directory specified in xinetd or some other super server. So you either need to change the server arg path so that it is point to the location of your images or you move the image.