1 Topic by xtree

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Topic: Another GParted PXE boot thread

I'm trying to get GParted (0.9.0-7) to work with my PXE server. When booting, Gparted fails to accept the DHCP address offered up. Is there a particular DHCP setting that fixes this? I'm using Bind that comes with RHEL 5.7.. Below is my PXE entry for gparted.

LABEL GParted Live CD (Hard Drive Partition Tool)
KERNEL ../images/gparted/vmlinuz
APPEND initrd=../images/gparted/initrd.img boot=live config union=aufs noswap noprompt fetch=tftp://192.168.0.5/filesystem.squashfs nosplash

here is the /var/log/messages output for the dhcp request.

Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.18 (9.70.160.207) from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.18 (9.70.160.207) from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:23 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:25 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:25 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:25 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.18 (9.70.160.207) from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:25 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:29 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:29 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:29 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.18 (9.70.160.207) from 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0
Aug  4 16:31:29 RHClus1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.18 to 00:21:5e:f7:74:ae via eth0

2 Reply by stevenshiau

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Re: Another GParted PXE boot thread

Nothing special I believe.
The following settings work. Maybe you can refer to.
The pxelinux config:
===============
label GParted-live
  # MENU DEFAULT
  # MENU HIDE
  MENU LABEL GParted Live 0.9.0-7 (Ramdisk)
  # MENU PASSWD
  KERNEL GParted-live-vmlinuz
  APPEND initrd=GParted-live-initrd.img boot=live config  noswap    nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://140.110.17.206/GParted-live-filesystem.squashfs

  TEXT HELP
  GParted Live 0.9.0-7 runs on RAM
  ENDTEXT
===============

This is the dhcpd.conf here:
===============
default-lease-time                      300;
max-lease-time                          300;
option subnet-mask                      255.255.255.0;
option domain-name-servers              8.8.8.8;
option domain-name                      "yourdomain.org"; 
ddns-update-style                       none;
server-name                             drbl;

filename = "pxelinux.0";
subnet 192.168.120.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    option subnet-mask  255.255.255.0;
    option routers 192.168.120.254;
    next-server 192.168.120.254;

    pool {
      range 192.168.120.1 192.168.120.3;
    }
}
===============

Steven.

3 Reply by bradpinkston

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Re: Another GParted PXE boot thread

I'm having the same issue it seems.  One of my machines doesn't PXE boot gparted because it doesn't get an IP and download squashfs.

Were you able to resolve your issue?

4 Reply by gedakc

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Re: Another GParted PXE boot thread

Hi Brad,

Unfortunately xtree did not post a response so we do not know the status of xtree's issue.