RB2011UAS-RM PXE setup not working

gerhard · Sun Mar 23, 2014 2:34 am

I have a Dell PowerEdge 2970 which doesn't want to PXE boot, error is: "No PXE-capable device available".

I can confirm that the server's IP address is 192.168.88.20, netmask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.88.1. It gets the network config via DHCP, it's not statically configured.

The RB2011-UAS is setup as follows:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip dhcp-server network export
# mar/23/2014 00:26:33 by RouterOS 6.11
# software id = 0YXJ-NGJP
#
/ip dhcp-server network
add address=192.168.88.0/24 boot-file-name=pxelinux.0 comment="default configuration" dns-server=192.168.88.1 \
    gateway=192.168.88.1 next-server=192.168.88.1
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip tftp print
Flags: X - disabled
 #   IP-ADDRESSES         REQ-FILENAME             REAL-FILENAME            ALLOW READ-ONLY ALLOW-ROLLOVER       HITS
 0   192.168.88.0/24      pxelinux.0               usb1/tftp/pxelinux.0     yes   yes       no                      0
 1   192.168.88.0/24      bootmsg.txt              usb1/tftp/bootmsg.txt    yes   yes       no                      0
 2   192.168.88.0/24      memdisk                  usb1/tftp/memdisk        yes   yes       no                      0
 3   192.168.88.0/24      pxelinux.cfg/default     usb1/tftp/pxelinux.cf... yes   yes       no                      0
 4   192.168.88.0/24      mini.iso                 usb1/tftp/mini.iso       yes   yes       no                      0
[admin@MikroTik] > /file print
 # NAME                                      TYPE                                           SIZE CREATION-TIME
 0 usb1/lost+found                           directory                                           mar/22/2014 23:06:53
 1 usb1/tftp                                 directory                                           mar/22/2014 23:15:23
 2 usb1/tftp/bootmsg.txt                     .txt file                                       199 mar/22/2014 23:15:22
 3 usb1/tftp/mini.iso                        .iso file                                   21.5MiB mar/22/2014 23:15:24
 4 usb1/tftp/memdisk                         file                                        25.5KiB mar/22/2014 23:15:23
 5 usb1/tftp/pxelinux.0                      .0 file                                     16.4KiB mar/22/2014 23:15:23
 6 usb1/tftp/pxelinux.cfg                    directory                                           mar/22/2014 23:15:23
 7 usb1/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default            .cfg/default file                               161 mar/22/2014 23:15:23
 8 usb1                                      disk                                                mar/23/2014 00:28:27

Not sure where the problem is. There's nothing in the logs.

TonyJr · Sun Mar 23, 2014 5:52 pm

You need to specify boot server in dhcp options.
Option 66 is TFTP server address
Option 67 is bootfile
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gerhard · Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:48 pm

I thought the 66 and 67 options are no longer recommended, and boot-file-name & next-server are meant to be used instead. Anyways, I have added the 2 options as suggested but I'm still getting the same "No PXE-capable device available" error on the server:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ip dhcp-server option print
 # NAME                                CODE VALUE                              RAW-VALUE
 0 TFTP-Server                           66 '192.168.88.1'                     c0a85801
 1 PXE-File                              67 'pxelinux.0'                       7078656c696e75782e30
[admin@MikroTik] > /ip dhcp-server network export
# mar/23/2014 18:43:41 by RouterOS 6.11
# software id = 0YXJ-NGJP
#
/ip dhcp-server network
add address=192.168.88.0/24 boot-file-name=pxelinux.0 comment="default configuration" dhcp-option=\
    PXE-File,TFTP-Server dns-server=192.168.88.1 gateway=192.168.88.1 next-server=192.168.88.1

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