Running a Linux PXE Administrating TFTPBoot Question

It is usually part of xinetd.

In the configuration file /etc/xinet.d/tftp you should have

disable         = no

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RPMS to install:

tftp-server-0.49-7.el6.x86_64
tftp-0.49-7.el6.x86_64

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Starting Service

service xinetd start

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Checking the service

netstat -nulp | grep 69

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You will see something like
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69                  0.0.0.0:*                               28979/xinetd

Thanks for the suggestion that configuration file is configured that way already. Is there a way to manually kick xinet.d in the but to makes sure tftpdboot is started?

you might need dhcpd as well!! :-)

Thanks guys port 69 is open.


udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69                  0.0.0.0:*                               2564/xinetd  

Also the port of NFS is open

tcp        0      0 *:nfs                       *:*                         LISTEN    

And disable is configured as well


[root@pxeserver xinetd.d]# cat tftp

      disable      = no

Here is a screen shot to show where it getting hung up on. It hangs out at "Booting the Kernel" for a while than boots back up with no new OS on it.

Actually here is some new data that may help. I telneted to the serial console on a client that was trying to load the PXE image. It looks like there is an error message that is missing a file. This happens on all the images on the box (there are three of them) so I am not sure which file it could be referring too

                         Legacy CLI Application

system>console 1



ls          
mount: RPC: Timed out
+ echo Creating tmpfs
Creating tmpfs
+ mount -n -t tmpfs -o size=250M tmpfs /mnt2
+ echo Tmpfs Created
Tmpfs Created
+ df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
+ sleep 10
+ ls -l /mnt
+ ls -l /mnt2
+ cp -ra /mnt/* /mnt2
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/*': No such file or directory
+ rm -rf /mnt2/initrd
+ umount /mnt
umount: cannot umount /mnt: Invalid argument
+ insmod /compass/plendk.ko
insmod: can't open '/compass/plendk.ko': No such file or directory
+ echo
+ grep -q l3,
+ test 1 -eq 0
+ reinst=1
+ test 1 -eq 1
+ echo re-installing
re-installing
+ chroot /mnt2 /re-install
chroot: cannot execute /re-install: No such file or directory
+ umount /mnt2
+ echo Time to Reboot
Time to Reboot
+ sleep 20
+ reboot -f
Restarting system.
.
machine restart

What Linux distro are you using?

You should have some messages in your log files, on the server side. They may help understanding the issue.