Jumpstart via DHCP - migrating from RARP jumpstart

From: Ralf van Dooren (ralf.van.dooren@asml.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 08:07:29 EDT


Hello,

Currently we are using jumpstart via rarp : a boot-server in every
network segment and a central jumpstart server.

We're migrating to jumpstart via DHCP: OBP = 3.25 . There are two
issues:

1) The inetboot_image is fetched from the tftp-server on the
   DHCP-server, although I specify the root-server as vendor-specific
   info. This is also sent to the client.

   When I use dhcp-options "filname" and "next-server", this issue is
   resolved, but I rather use the vendor-specific options. Why doesn't
   it use this provided information?

2) After loading the inetboot_image, I get a the following message:
   2ae00 - panic - boot: Could not mount filesystem

The filesystem which should be mounted is specified in
SUNW.root-path-name and is imho correctly shared. FYI: this is the same
directory as the 'jumpstart via rarp'.

The options I put in the vendor-specific options are taken from the NIS
bootparams.
 
DHCP-server is ISC DHCP v3.0 .

Any help is appreciated, i'm in a deadlock right now.

Please reply to me personally, I'll summarize to the list.

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Ralf van Dooren                 e: ralf.van.dooren@asml.com
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