I'm setting up a pxe setup for my cluster. I'm using dnsmasq as the dhcp/tftp server, and try to deploy ubuntu server 14.04.2. I'm using apache2 as http server to serve the preseed and such.
dnsmasq:
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0
enable-tftp
tftp-root:/tftp/pxeboot
my tree looks like
/tftpboot
--/tftpboot/pxeboot
----/tftpboot/pxeboot/pxelinux.0
----/tftpboot/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
----/tftpboot/pxeboot/pxelinux.cfg/vesamenu.c32
----/tftpboot/pxeboot/boot/14.04.2
Where the content of /tftpboot/pxeboot/boot/14.04.2 is the exact result of
mount -o loop ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso /mnt
cp -R /mnt /tftp/pxeboot/boot/14.04.2
My client is able to retrieve the pxelinux.cfg/default file, which is made of the following lines:
default boot/14.04.2/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/boot-screens/vesamenu.c32
menu title ubuntu server install
Label u14.02.2_server
menu label ubuntu-server-14.04.2-amd64
kernel boot/14.04.2/install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64/linux
append vga=788 initrd=boot/14.04.2/install/initrd.gz ksdevice=eth0 locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us interface=eth0 hostname=unassigned url=http://X.X.X.X/14.04.2/preseed/preseed.txt live-installer/net-image=http://X.X.X.X/14.04.2/install/filesystem.squashfs -- quiet
The client retrieve the initrd (fact that I can see in the dnsmaq's machine system log), then start the installation. I'm not prompted anything, but the installation stalls at Detect and mount CD-ROM
The log file on the client shows the following:
[...]cdrom-detect: Searching for Ubuntu installation media
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
[...]cdrom-detect: Devices: ''
Is there any other option I must give for the client to find the installation files on the server side? Did I misunderstood how the http client/Server dialogue server those file after the initrd was loaded?
