thinstation 6.1 fastboot error -- networkmanager

[shNanChen]

Hi,

Sorry, my English is not good, relying on Google Translate help.

I have a working thinstation build, clients booting on pxe. I try now to speed boot with fastboot, but it unsuccessful. thinstation build with parameter --allmodules

• In build.conf, I have :

  package debug
  param fastboot true
  param bootlogo false
  param splash verbose
  param bootverbosity 4

• In thinstation.conf.buildtime, I added :

  FASTBOOT_URL="http://192.168.12.44/boot"    _pxe server is the DevStation_
  NET_USE=BOTH
  NET_USE_DHCP=off     _also tried on_
  NET_IP_ADDRESS=192.168.12.51
  NET_MASK=255.255.255.0
  NET_GATEWAY=192.168.12.254
  NET_DNS1=192.168.12.254

I used the Porxmox qemu virtual machine to test pxe to start the thinstation, The startup process stops at thinstation-linux:~$ , and there is no get lib.squash access log on the Devstation server.

1. poweron

2. Devstation log

3. just stop here

4. /var/log/boot.log & /var/log/messages, no IPv4 ADDRESS ?

5. dmesg

EOF , Help me, please!

[trezel]

Hi, Just a little suggestion : Did you try ipxe ? I had issues with fastboot too (not the same as you have). I "took the opportunity" to migrate to ipxe instead of pxe. Now initrd and vmlinuz are downloaded with http, just like fastboot, and ipxe gives a lot more features you don't find in PXE.

It doesn't answer your question, sorry, but it may be a good workaround ;-)

[hadyos]

You can see in the first screenshot that it does use ipxe...

[Thinstation]

can you set an ip address manually? Ping the network? download the file manually?

[hadyos]

I have the same problem, Once I drop to the ipxe shell (CTRL B) and execute dhcp command I can ping and even set a new ip manually....

[shNanChen]

can you set an ip address manually? Ping the network? download the file manually?

ip addr add 192.168.12.25/24 dev ens18 ip: RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted

[Thinstation]

Do you have autonet package?

[shNanChen]

Modify the build.conf ，

package ts-classic
#package networkmanager

Fastboot started successfully on pxe.

reference: Network problem while PXE boot 　　Don't include networkmanager. It conflicts with autonet included via ts-classic.

Defalut enable package networkmanager, It seems that ipv4 is disabled.

[shNanChen]

thinstation.conf.group- not working with networkmanager inTS5.4

Yes, this is a known issue, but there is a work around. Because of the type of dhcp request that networkmanager sends to the DHCP server, the next-server is not handed out. If your dhcp server also has a field for tftp server, set that to the same ip as your next-server, and you should be good to go.

[Doncuppjr]

Kinda silly to use networkfiles in conjunction with networkmanager. You should use auto net.