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I am running a PXE server mock up in VMware Workstation. I have the DHCP and TFTP servers working and I can get my to grab an IP address and boot the firmware for their platform.

Where I seem to be running into trouble is all clients are failing to find the configuration file for syslinux. I intend on using multiple platforms so I have each platform in its own folder.

Here is my structure; File tree

This is the error I am receiveing from the clients; PXE Error

From what I have read on the syslinux wiki it says the bootloader will try looking for a config file in a specific order.

Config file order

I am pretty sure its something to do with my configuration that is causing the failure. The issue I am stumped on what it would be. Since my each platform has its own folder I am think the context of `/mybootdir' has changed. The question is to what? You can see in the file tree I tried making a symlink as a workaround but it did not seem to make any difference.

Any ideas what is wrong?

UPDATE

Here is what my DHCP config looks like; I copied some of it from a few examples I found on how to boot different platforms from the same DHCP scope and made it my own.

DHCP Config

AtomicPorkchop
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my working setup is:

tree /var/lib/tftpboot/
/var/lib/tftpboot/
├── centos6_32
│   ├── initrd.img
│   └── vmlinuz
├── centos6_64
│   ├── initrd.img
│   └── vmlinuz
├── centos7
│   ├── initrd.img
│   └── vmlinuz
├── chain.c32
├── mboot.c32
├── memdisk
├── menu.c32
├── pxelinux.0
└── pxelinux.cfg
    └── default

the menu is in pxelinux.cfg/default

It's important to know what your dhcp configuration for the boot file name is, because it's relative to the tftp server root directory.

natxo asenjo
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