[SLUG] Network Booting PA-RISC (HP9000 712/60) Take 2

[Gerard Blacklock <gbla5989@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

Thanks to Roger, Peter, David, dave and Stephen for your ideas and help.

I still have no joy in getting it to work....i also feel it is a 
"simple" networking prob but it is eluding my networking knowledge :), 
it seems the pa-risc machine is not accepting the allocated IP provided 
by the server, this to me indicates my dhcp is broken and/or the pa-risc 
machine is playing funny buggers with me...(or it is most likey 
something i stuffed up:))

I had a go at ensuring all the correct services were operating correctly 
when i got home today, heres a quick list of what i have done/checked:

1)

Tweaked with the dhcpd.conf file, which is where i feel my problem may 
lie....someone mentioned conflicting ips due to already static ips

Not sure what you mean here, do u suggest i use another range, like 10.0.0.0
"You may find it better not to overlap dynamicly assigned and
staticly assigned addresses"

2)

Ensured the tftpd was started, did this by checking the file:

service tftp
{
       socket_type             = dgram
       protocol                = udp
       wait                    = yes
       user                    = root
       server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
       server_args             = -s /tftpboot
       disable                 = no
       per_source              = 11
       cps                     = 100 2
}

seems OK...restarted xinet.d to get this running....correct??



3)

checked xinetd.conf was ok....


# Simple configuration file for xinetd
#
# Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/

defaults
{
       instances               = 60
       log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
       log_on_success          = HOST PID
       log_on_failure          = HOST
       cps                     = 25 30
}

tftp            dgram   udp     wait    nobody
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot -l

includedir /etc/xinetd.d


4)

Checked the boot image and path were indeed correct, even copied the 
lifimage to the root of the tftpboot dir.
Updated my dhcp version to 3.0
There is a firewall but it is not running when i attempt the network boot.
There are only a few other machines on the network, which works fine...

The logs and packet files are the same as before......


if anyone has any ideas regarding this they would greatly appreciated!!



thanks gerard