[Gslug-general] PXE Hell (ubuntu w fat clients)

[JT Gray]

Greetings all,

I posted at some point earlier on when I was initially getting PXE setup,
and got helpful replies which led to my resolving the issue.  Thanks to
everyone who helped me with that.  I was using a Dell Inspiron 530s as the
server and a year or so old Emachine as the client.  After fixing the NFS, I
was able to get it working and it was awesome.  But that was just the local
test setup.

When I took the Dell server to its destination and plugged up the other new
Dell Inspiron 530s to be a client, I got the following:

"NET:  Registered protocol family 17
ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX:  No such device
ipconfig:  no devices to configure
/init: .: 1: Can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!"

This looks like a drivers issue, but I was able to verify the e1000.ko file
corresponding to the ethernet was in the initramfs, so I don't see why the
network card wouldn't be detected, and when I boot from the hard drive w an
Ubuntu install, I can see eth0, so it's not an eth1 naming conflict (for
instance).  Does anybody have any insight into possible solutions to this
problem?  I'm about 12 hours away from just setting up NFS and scrapping PXE
altogether, and that smacks of defeat.  So if anyone has an exit strategy to
get out of PXE Hell, please do share.  Feel free to respond to my so far
unanswered post at Ubuntu forums if you're so inclined:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=714080

Thanks,
JT
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