[ipxe-devel] [gPXE] tftp options ignored.

[Andrew Bobulsky]

On May 3, 2013, at 6:07 PM, John Hanks <griznog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use a gPXE boot iso to work around a lack of PXE (on
> iMacs, but this also happens in virtualbox VMs) and the tftp server
> option is being ignored. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here as
> non-gPXE PXE clients all seem to be working fine and get correct tftp
> server addresses. The replies sent to the gPXE client include the
> correct sname and we've tried with and without option 66 set to the IP
> address of the tftp server. I can see from tcpdump that these are
> correctly set in the dhcp replies. But the gPXE client still sets the
> tftp server to 0.0.0.0 when it tries to download the bootfile. Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> griznog
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Hello John,

The only suggestion I can give is to try upgrading to iPXE.  gPXE was
forked a few years ago, and iPXE is where development went following
the fork.

You can download an ISO like the one you're currently using at http://iPXE.org

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky