Solaris 10 jumpstart server - x86

Hello all,

I'm trying to configure my x86 box to act as a jumpstart server for a x86 laptop.

To cut a long story short, the laptop is not able to receive an ip address from the bootp daemon. The ethers and hosts looks OK, but snooping sees the laptop broadcast requesting an IP but there is no reply. Running rpc.bootparamd with debug option doesn't yield any output, and trussing this process shows that it doesn't even wake up to check ethers or do anything.

I'm not sure where to go to debug this, so any suggestions welcome.

thnks..

[571 byte] By [wrightrp] at [2007-11-26 8:32:40]

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# 1

There is no 'bootp' daemon on Solaris. There is rpc.bootparamd, but that doesn't get used until after the IP address is in place.

How are you booting the client? Are you doing a PXE boot from the bios, or are you booting from CD and selecting a jumpstart installation?

You say you see it requesting an IP. What protocol is the request? Is it DHCP? You'll need the DHCP server running and configured in that case.

Darren

Darren_Dunham at 2007-7-6 21:57:12 >

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# 2

dhcp fixed this. It looks like PXE boot requires dhcp to work.

wrightrp at 2007-7-6 21:57:12 >

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