Re: [9fans] PXE tftpload: file does not exist

[vic.thacker@fastmail.fm]

Just a hunch, but perhaps you haven't added the cpu server kernel to /lib/tftpd to be loaded.

-vic

On Sat, Jul 22, 2023, at 15:21, Marco Feichtinger wrote:
> The error was caused by a misconfigured ndb.
> Thanks to Frank D. Engel Jr., which gave me the hint in a separat email.
>
> So I played around with my ndb files, and concluded,… that I don’t quit 
> understand how the ndb works.
> Given following basic ndb configuration:
> ; cat /lib/ndb/local
>
> #
> #  files comprising the database, use as many as you like, see ndb(6)
> #
> database=
>         file=/lib/ndb/local
>         file=/lib/ndb/common
>
> #
> #  because the public demands the name localsource
> #
> ip=127.0.0.1 sys=localhost dom=localhost
>
> #
> #  main network for home.csr.germteig.com
> #
> ipnet=main ip=10.0.0.0 ipmask=255.0.0.0
> ipsubmask=255.255.0.0
>
> #
> #  server subnetwork
> #
> ipnet=srv ip=10.0.0.0 ipmask=255.255.0.0
>         fs=fs.main.com
>         auth=auth.main.com
>         authdom=servers.main.com
>
> sys=auth
>         ip=10.0.0.3 ether=<mac address>
>         dom=auth.main.com
>
> sys=cpu
>         ip=10.0.0.4 ether=<mac address>
>         ip=10.0.0.5 ether=<mac address>
>         dom=cpu.main.com
>         bootf=/386/9boot
>
> sys=fs
>         ip=10.0.0.10 ether=<mac address>
>         ip=10.0.0.11 ether=<mac address>
>         dom=fs.main.com
> ;
>
> With that, the cpu server boots just fine.
> It reads its config file under /cfg/pxe/ and loads the kernel.
>
> Now if I change the ip address of that cpu server to following:
> sys=cpu
>         ip=10.0.1.4 ether=<mac address>
>         ip=10.0.1.5 ether=<mac address>
>         dom=cpu.main.com
>         bootf=/386/9boot
>
> Then I get the error "tftpload: file does not exist”.
> But why?
>
> -marco
>
>> On 17.07.2023, at 22:25, Marco Feichtinger <marco@germteig.com> wrote:
>> 
>> yes, ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd are running on the file server
>> 
>> -marco
>> 
>>> On 17.07.2023, at 20:47, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> are you running the tftp server?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 17 Jul 2023, at 4:38 pm, Marco Feichtinger <marco@germteig.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I have a standalone file server, and a separate standalone auth server.
>>>> 
>>>> I tried to pxe boot a cpu server.
>>>> It gets the /386/9boot to load fine, but then it seems, that it can’t retrieve the file /cfg/pxe/<mac address> from my file server.
>>>> 
>>>> here is the screen output during bootup:
>>>>      9boot gz…starting protected-mode loader at 0x900020
>>>> 
>>>> Plan 9 from Bell Labs PXE boot loader
>>>> cpu0: 1800MHz GenuineIntel Atom (cpuid: AX 0x106CA DX 0xBFEBFBFF)
>>>> ELCR: CC80
>>>> #l0: i82598: 10Gbps port 0XFE980000 irq 11: <mac address>
>>>> #l0: i82598: 10Gbps port 0XFE980000 irq 10: <mac address>
>>>> 498M memory: 498M kernel data, 0M user, 18M swap
>>>> pxe on ether0 .
>>>> <sysname> (10.0.10.1!69): /cfg/pxe/<mac address> .T.T.T.T.T.T.T.T.T.Ttftpread1st: failed to connect to server (10.0.10.1!69)
>>>> 
>>>> failed.
>>>> tftpload: file does not exist
>>>> 
>>>> Which is strange, because I did create the file on my file server.
>>>> It looks like following:
>>>>      bootfile=ether0!/386/9pccpuf
>>>>      nobootprompt=tcp
>>>>      readparts=1
>>>>      mouseport=2
>>>>      monitor=vesa
>>>>      vgasize=1024x768x8
>>>>      user=bootes
>>>>      sysname=<sysname>
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know what might be the problem?
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> -marco
>>>> 

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