Syslinux - Aug 2005 - PXE/Memdisk/bootimage having a fight

I have tried to get this working SO many times, everywhere I look on  
the web tells me i have this correct.

I have the following stanza in my /tftboot/lts/pxelinux.cfg/default


label Ghost
kernel memdisk
append initrd=netboot.img


For some reason, it doesn't work - I get the error messages

Missing parameter in config file
Could not find kernel image: linux
boot:

The netboot.img is in the same directory as the linux kernel, which  
boots fine.

>I have tried to get this working SO many times, everywhere I look on
>the web tells me i have this correct.
>
>I have the following stanza in my /tftboot/lts/pxelinux.cfg/default
>
>
>label Ghost
>kernel memdisk
>append initrd=netboot.img
>
>
>For some reason, it doesn't work - I get the error messages
>
>Missing parameter in config file
>Could not find kernel image: linux
>boot:
>
>The netboot.img is in the same directory as the linux kernel, which
>boots fine.
You should have this.

/tftboot/lts/memdisk
/tftboot/lts/netboot.img
/tftboot/lts/pxelinux.0
/tftboot/lts/pxelinux.cfg/default

Mr Tyrese wrote:
> 
> I have tried to get this working SO many times, everywhere I look on  
> the web tells me i have this correct.
> 
> I have the following stanza in my /tftboot/lts/pxelinux.cfg/default
> 
> 
> label Ghost
> kernel memdisk
> append initrd=netboot.img
> 
> 
> For some reason, it doesn't work - I get the error messages
> 
> Missing parameter in config file
> Could not find kernel image: linux
> boot:
> 
> The netboot.img is in the same directory as the linux kernel, which  
> boots fine.
> 
They *should* be in the /tftboot/lts/ directory, together with the 
pxelinux.0 file.  Are they?

	-hpa

>***
>prompt=100
>kernel bzImage-2.4.26-ltsp-2
>append init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd-2.4.26-ltsp.gz
>
>label Ghost
>kernel memdisk
>append initrd=netboot.img
>
>***
>
>The above is my entire file
>
>what i want is the ability to choose which on for my end users
You could do it like this.

default Other 
prompt=100

label Other
kernel bzImage-2.4.26-ltsp-2
append init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd-2.4.26-ltsp.gz

label Ghost
kernel memdisk
append initrd=netboot.img

>> You could do it like this.
>>
>> default Other
>> prompt=100
>>
>> label Other
>> kernel bzImage-2.4.26-ltsp-2
>> append init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd-2.4.26-ltsp.gz
>>
>> label Ghost
>> kernel memdisk
>> append initrd=netboot.img
>
>When I do it like that, I don't have the option to choose it just
>defaults to the linux entry. I want a menu system, so that users can
>choose which entry they use. And if no choice has been made after 10
>seconds, THEN it fires up the default profile
default Other
prompt 1
timeout 100
display boot.txt

Create a simple text file 'boot.txt' that explains the choices the
user has at the boot prompt.

>I have tried to get this working SO many times,
>everywhere I look on  
>the web tells me i have this correct.
>
>I have the following stanza in >my
/tftboot/lts/pxelinux.cfg/default
>
>
>label Ghost
>kernel memdisk
>append initrd=netboot.img
>
>
>For some reason, it doesn't work - I get the error
>messages
>
>Missing parameter in config file
>Could not find kernel image: linux
>boot:
>
>The netboot.img is in the same directory as the
>linux kernel, which  
>boots fine.
That directory structure looks like a pain in the butt
to me. I have mine a lot simpler here is how mine
looks

# ls -Rl /tftpboot/
/tftpboot/:
total 1500
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1474560 Aug 12 13:51
floppy.img
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   19852 Aug 12 13:51 memdisk
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   12968 Aug 12 13:49
pxelinux.0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Aug 12 13:51
pxelinux.cfg

/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg:
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 89 Aug 12 13:51 default

# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
default floppy
prompt 1
timeout 40

label floppy
kernel memdisk
append initrd=floppy.img


# cat /etc/dhcpd.conf
ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
 range 192.168.3.100 192.168.3.200;
 option domain-name-servers 172.24.0.22, 172.24.0.25;
 option routers 192.168.3.1;
 next-server 192.168.3.1;
 filename "pxelinux.0";
}



		
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