LTSP Lucid doesn't work with etherboot clients

I have exactly the same issue with my system at home. Worked fine with Hardy ltsp but when I installed 10.10 my diskless workstation terminal no longer boots. Does do the "..............done" and then sits forever. I can boot either of my laptops as terminals using pxe so I believe ltsp is Ok, just a problem with etherboot.
this is preventing us from updating Ubuntu at work as there we run a dozen Diskless workstations terminals, all with etherboot.

Any solutions????

The workaround that I found is to boot clients with a CDROM burnt with the
gpxe-1.0.1-gpxe.iso image.

I haven't tried the .dsk image (foo floppy) of this gpxe version

Domènec Arcalís

2010/12/29 ty debelser <email address hidden>

> I have exactly the same issue with my system at home. Worked fine with
> Hardy ltsp but when I installed 10.10 my diskless workstation terminal no
> longer boots. Does do the "..............done" and then sits forever. I
> can boot either of my laptops as terminals using pxe so I believe ltsp is
> Ok, just a problem with etherboot.
> this is preventing us from updating Ubuntu at work as there we run a dozen
> Diskless workstations terminals, all with etherboot.
>
> Any solutions????
>
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> Title:
> LTSP Lucid doesn't work with etherboot clients
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Until now I had a Debian Lenny box working fine as an LTSP server.
> Thin clients connected via etherboot (booting with a diskette) and loaded
> nbi.img from the server, or via PXE if they could be able.
> The server is Pertium Core Duo 7300. DHCP is provided by another server in
> the same network.
>
> I installed in the same computer a Lucid Lynx in the standard way (as a
> standalone machine). Afther that, I did
> - sudo aptitude install ltsp-server openssh-server
> - sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow nbd -server (to create the config file, with
> the exports and ports)
> - sudo ltsp-build-client
> - sudo ltsp-update-sshkeys
> - sudo ltsp-update-image
>
> All these steps were done fine, without any error message.
>
> The installation works fine with PXE clients, such as laptops, but it
> doesn't work with etherboot clients, booting from floppies (I tried some of
> them, that were previously working). Thin clients boot, find DHCP server,
> get an IP address, get nbi.img (a lot of dots appear, as usual), the word
> "done" appear after the dots, and that's all. It hangs up. No more messages.
> No logs anywhere. I have not any clue to know what is going on.
>
> The worst of all is that it doesn't give any clues: no messages, no logs,
> and I couldn't find anything similar by googling. Except Launchpad Question
> 118802, which I think that describes the same problem in another
> environment.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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