Author Topic: Problem With PXE Boot With DELL OPTIPLEX 380  (Read 9868 times)

sysinstaller

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Problem With PXE Boot With DELL OPTIPLEX 380
« on: May 24, 2011, 15:09:42 PM »
Hi,
     At our institute there are around 300 DELL OPTIPLEX 380 Pcs. When I try to remote boot it with ploplinux pxe booting. I got error 'Unable to get dhcp ip.."
can any one guide me whats exact problem ?

(All other DELL models are working very fine with ploplinux)
 

Elmar

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Re: Problem With PXE Boot With DELL OPTIPLEX 380
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2011, 15:21:42 PM »
hi,
what kind of network card is used in that dell?

please boot local with ploplinux (cd or usb) and post the output of dmesg and lspci as attachment.

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elmar

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Re: Problem With PXE Boot With DELL OPTIPLEX 380
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2011, 16:45:02 PM »
Thanks elmar,
I will post this attachments tommorow.
Thanks in advance....