Re: gPXE (was Re: [libvirt] [RFC,PATCH] network: add 'netboot' option to dhcp config)

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 09:44 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> > I very much like this idea - e.g. I'd really like to have this to give
> > people simple instructions for testing gPXE in next week's Fedora Test
> > Day.
> 
> On the subject of gPXE has anybody else found that it doesn't seem to be 
> working at all?
> 
> I'm using the virt-preview packages on F11 and ever since qemu switched 
> to use gPXE network booting has been completely broken. I get the gPXE 
> banner message appear and then nothing happens. Monitoring the network 
> shows no signs of any DHCP requests being sent at all.

It's probably this:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/512358

It's fixed in the F-12 kernel, but we need that fix backported to F-11.

Cheers,
Mark.