Comments on: NetBSD PXE boot install (without NFS)

By: Karin

Karin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:54:03 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

When doing the pxeboot, i see the following error message

illegal tftpd error 17

from pxeboot_ia32.bin taken from NetBSD 5.0.2 (the tftp server is a 5.0.2 i386 machine). Am I the only one to see this?

Thanks, Karin

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:56:44 +0000

nevermind I fixed it! for some reason, the “option routers” command specified in this HOWTO for dhcpd did not work for me. i don’t know how it got confused, but the tftpd server thought that the machine running PXE WAS my gateway.. tftpd was somehow sending the netbsd kernel information to my router. I temporarily removed this line, and everything worked perfectly after that..

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:58:45 +0000

Hey man, this is really awesome information. I have everything setup exactly as you described, but when I type boot tftp:netbsd-INSTALL it the PXE boot screen gives me this error:

open tftp:netbsd-INSTALL: Unknown error: code 60

I will say that I searched high and low for the NetBSD-INSTALL.gz file all on their ftp site and could not find it. I used the NetBSD-INSTALL_FLOPPY.gz which I assume should at least start the installation so I could do an FTP install from there.

Any insight you may be able to provide would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks a lot.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:39:32 +0000

Thanks for this posting. The router we have would not pass a NFS server to the pxeboot but with this interrupt method I was able to get it working.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:50:09 +0000

Remember to interrupt the boot, and manually “boot tftp:netbsd-INSTALL” even if u made a pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin, otherwise it will think there is NSF server…