What we're seeing: We use either a floppy with gPXE to simulate network boot, or a CD with gPXE, or a few machines can be configured in BIOS to do a real network boot. The client displays that it does connect to the Clonezilla server, it does go through DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot for Linux) so it appears the TFTP process works. We do get a brief text menu that shows it will attempt to boot into Clonezilla client, then a series of messages scroll off the display indicating Linux start-up. However, we get a message that appears to say something about failure to mount a file system. The exact problem isn't clear since the messages scroll off the client machine's screen too quickly to read before it halts. We do have a Linux machine that acts as our router, but it has it's DHCP stack configured to point to the Clonezilla server ("next server" and "filename" parameters set in dhcpd.conf). Since we do get DRBL messages complete with a menu indicating it tries to start Clonezilla client, it shouldn't be the router. We have checked that NFS is running on the Clonezilla server. Help.

Thanks, Rob Dyck

--- Mike pfaiffer wrote:

Lindsay (the CLL supervisor) has asked if I could ask the folks at the MUUG if there is anyone in the club with Clonezilla experience who could show up for a Friday to go over our set up and see what we are missing. There are two of us working on the server and between the two of us we can almost get it working consistently. What we are doing should work (and did work for six machines a month ago). So far it looks like the machines are doing a diskless boot into Linux without installing the disk image. Rob may have more information than this. When it works it works like a champ. When it doesn't, we don't have a clue why... At least one of the five of us will be at Tuesdays meeting...

		Later
		Mike