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iscraigh · Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 384 Location: Nanaimo BC

Unfortunately that is not my issue. The ip is in the log I rebooted started frontend and checked again.

Craig

Greg Frost · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject:

Can you pastebin the log or make it available somewhere for download?

yaplej · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 124 Location: White City OR

Can the DHCP portition of this be disabled like in R5? I recall in R5 I had to comment out "allow booting", and the network router could issue IP address while the KM box would reply to bootp requests.

When I started to run the R6 config_diskless_frontend.bash script it was asking me for a range of IP addresses to assign to the frontends. I cancled it because I dont want it doing DHCP. Can this be disabled in this newer script too?

Thanks.
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yaplej · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 124 Location: White City OR

Hey all,

I am getting a BE, and diskless FE setup. I have the FE booting after having to fix some video driver problems, but now when I rerun config_diskless_frontend.bash lock the MAC address it says that its unable to automatcially determine the MAC address.

Is there a way to manually specify the MAC address so I can start setting up another diskless FE?

Thanks.
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Greg Frost · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:03 am Post subject:

The script is looking for a line in /var/log/daemon.log that looks something like this:

yaplej · Joined: 13 Feb 2006 Posts: 124 Location: White City OR

Thanks Greg,

I was able to save the config by renaming the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to 01-00-14-85-11-18-87 this will be the boot file for that particular MAC address. The extra 01- in front means its the ARP type 1 address.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX

So this can be used so the DHCP server does not require IP addresses, and the router, or whatever device you have running can provide IP addresses even for PXE booting.

I ran into another problem when trying to run the script again to setup my 2nd FE though. It seems like the script does not like the "-" in the config file name. Maybe that could get fixed?

config_diskless_frontend.bash: line 65: 0x0-: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "-")

Edit: As a workaround I just moved the config file up one directly level, and reran the script to create a new "default" config file. I then booted my 2nd FE, and moved the 1st FE config file back into the pxelinux.cfg directory. After I got the MAC address of my 2nd FE I renamed the new "default" config file to 01-2nd-FE-MAC-Address, and all is well.
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Greg Frost · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 4:15 am Post subject:

I think the reason the script does not map the mac address properly sometimes is a logrotation issue. See this flyspray task:
http://linhes.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=611

RacerX · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 245

Hello

Since I migrated to R6.02 last week I had to redo all of my diskless workstations. Right now I'm able to create a custom image as usual.
It works fine but I have two issues and was wondering if others have a similar issue.

Here is the log from my diskless frontend.

The first issue is that I'm unable to permanently change the theme. It is always Metallurgy Widescreen. Moreover, while I can change this theme to Blootube for my Diskless frontend that's 1024x768 Standard TV. When I change the theme as soon as I exit out of the frontend it rolls the theme back to Metallurgy next time I launch the frontend. It's like I do not have permission to change it permanently. I tested it also launching the frontend as root and it also rolls back the change. Additionally why does it show 1024x768 and then pick a theme that is 1280x720? Furthermore, how does it pick Metallurgy Widescreen Theme when I need a standard width theme like Blootube etc?

Greg Frost · Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:15 pm Post subject:

From the FEs perspective, it doesnt see /nfsroot/Bedroom/... but its root is actually the contents of that directory. Is the lircd deamon running? I think that error is saying something like "the socket that the lircd deamon uses to send button presses to applications is not present" which would most commonly occur if lircd was not running for some reason.

As for the first prob, I have seen occasions where a host specific setting has been set in the database as a global setting (hostname of null).

Im not home, so im guessing about the syntax, but if you do something like:

RacerX · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 245

Greg

I ran the command
mysqldump --skip-opt mythconverg settings | grep "metallurgy"

Greg Frost · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:43 am Post subject:

what is the theme setting for all hosts?

RacerX · Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 245

Greg

Well I sorted both problems out today with this command

phisherpryce · Joined: 18 Aug 2010 Posts: 1

I setup a Linhes 6.03 backend and followed instructions to install the diskless-legacy package and run the config script. I commented out the 'allow bootp' as I already have another device acting as a dhcp server.

I'm able to network boot my frontend but I get a couple NFS related failures and a video driver issue:

poflynn · Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 198 Location: CA,USA