Ubuntu over PXE

[jamesaepp]

The goal: Boot Ubuntu 12.04 over network using NFS, TFTPD-HPA, and dhcp

DHCP is provided by a pfsense router. This has been forwarded to the IP and filename pxelinux.0
TFTPD-HPA is started by init.d and NFS is by itself to start.

In /etc/inetd.conf I have:

tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd/usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot

I installed nfs-kernelserver and in /etc/exports I added this:

/var/lib/tftpboot/0 192.168.1.0/24(ro,sync,insecure,all_squash)

Under the /var/lib/tftpboot/ folder, I have some stuffs:

/var/lib/tftpboot/
<DIR> 0
pxelinux.0
<DIR> pxelinux.cfg
<DIR> syslinux

The 0 folder will contain all future media
The pxelinux.0 originated from the syslinux folder (see below)
The pxelinux.cfg folder has the default file in it for initial connection
The syslinux folder has all files originally found in /usr/lib/syslinux/*
The pxelinux.0 file was copied from here.

After that, in the 0 directory I extracted all of the files from the ubuntu iso to a folder called ubuntu

I then copied the vmlinuz and initrd.lz files from /var/lib/tftpboot/0/ubuntu/casper to /var/lib/tftpboot/0/ubuntu

My pxelinux.cfg/default is as follows:

UI syslinux/menu.C32
PROMPT 0

LABEL UBUNTU
MENU LABEL UBUNTU
KERNEL 0/ubuntu/vmlinuz
APPEND boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.184:/var/lib/tftpboot/0/ubuntu initrd=0/ubuntu/initrd.lz

When I boot a client, however, I get this: http://i.imgur.com/5hkRUkD.png (This occurs on both VMs and real machines) Typing results in nothing, but the keyboards are not the issue, as if one of laptops turns off one of its screens, I can activate it by using a keypress.

[dslowik]

You didn't copy everything over to var/lib/tftpboot/0/ubuntu. A .disk folder was missed.