PXE booting of PE1950

[Alderman, Sean]

Don't we need to have portfast enabled on the switch?...

And doesn't 2.6 Kernel have that issue where it calls GIG1 Eth1 and GIG2
Eth0?... I can not successfully pxe a 2950, with out completely
disabling one of the interfaces... I can't recall if the 1950's have 2
interfaces or not.


--
Sean M. Alderman

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Mukarram Syed
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 11:51 AM
To: 'Dhawal Doshy'; 'Michael Green'
Cc: 'linux-poweredge'
Subject: RE: PXE booting of PE1950


Have you tried to modify the NIC configuration in the BIOS to enable PXE
boot?

Thanks

-Mukarram.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Dhawal Doshy
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:55 AM
To: Michael Green
Cc: linux-poweredge
Subject: Re: PXE booting of PE1950

Michael Green wrote:
> Bright minds,
> 
> I'm looking for somebody who had succeeded in setting up PXE booting 
> of PE1950 machines in SLES9 SP3 environment.
> 
> I've been trying for quite some time now to setup a DHCP/NFS/TFTP/PXE 
> server on one PE1950 to boot up a bunch of other PE1950s but it didn't

> work.
> 
> I'm not looking to instal the machines from PXE, but to boot the 
> machines over PXE and let them run off NFS mounted file systems.
> 
> The knowledge that I've gathered on the topic is from  various HOWTOs 
> that I found on the Internet, most of which are relatively old and/or 
> Redhat based.
> 
> So if you have succeeded in building PXE environment on PE1950 (or 
> similar systems), and willing to share your knowledge  please drop me 
> a note!
> 
> I'd equally appreciate pointers to any _relevant_ reading.

I have a very new cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/) setup in place
  that takes care of PXE, DHCP, TFTP, Kickstarting and a few other
things as well.. i use it for provisioning RHEL/CentOS on dell 860, xy50
(x=1,2, y=7,8,9) servers, though it should work with any other server /
distro. am not too sure about the NFS mounts though..

BTW, here is a link to using cobbler with SuSE.
http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Linux/SuSE/Using+Cobbler+with+SuSE

- dhawal

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