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Christian Brinch
Asked: 2014-06-24 04:20:18 +0800 CST

TFTP client cannot find PXE boot configuration file

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I have set up DHCP and TFTP servers to allow boot via network. My server is 192.168.10.50 and the client is 192.168.10.51

The client gives me this:

Searching for server (DHCP)...
Me: 192.168.10.51, DHCP: 192.168.10.50, TFTP: 192.168.10.50, GATEWAY: 192.168.10.50 
Loading 192.168.10.50:pxelinux.0 ...(done)
...
TFTP prefix:
Unable to locate configuration file

Boot failed

On the server side, the syslog says:

testserver dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.10.51 to 52:54:00:28:90:f6 via eth1
testserver tftpd: trying to get file: pxelinux.0
testserver tftpd: serving file from /var/lib/tftpboot
testserver tftpd: trying to get file: pxelinux.cfg/default
testserver tftpd: serving file from /var/lib/tftpboot

If I do ls -l /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg, I get:

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 23 11:59 default

i.e., the file exists and is readable. Can anyone tell me why the tftp client fails to boot?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The path seems a bit wrong to me. Try to create a folder named pxelinux.cfg.

    In that, the config-file named default should reside, ie (in your case):

    /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

    The whole path (to/including default) needs to be world readable.

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