Netboot Skips and boots to regular HDD

[Poseiden951]

We made a 10.10 and 10.9 NBI. Then made the 10.9.5 the default and set both to be diskless boot served over NFS (we also tried HTTP). But when we try to Netboot (again on the same device) - it skips straight past and attempts to load HDD. Images were created with System Image Utility (fails), AutoCasperNBI (fails). Any suggestions?

I also used @ChrisSVCarter suggestion: server='<IP address of your server'
netbootSet='<File name of your NBI image including extension>

and now my NetInstall page on OS X Yosemite Server.app doesn't load anymore..... I do have backups of my OS, which files are associated with Netinstall so I can restore them? Or is a full system restore a better option?

[calumhunter]

sounds like your netboot server is borked.
Have you looked into using a different netboot server? NetSUS or BSDPy?

[Poseiden951]

@calumhunter

Sigh, I'll just restore from a backup. I was fearing this. The reason I haven't look into NetSUS because I don't have the time and the required OS's at the moment.

[RobertHammen]

Troubleshooting NetBoot issues, two different things are useful:

a) trying to boot the client in Verbose mode
b) checking the NetBoot service logs on the server

Did your NetBoot image show up in System Preferences->Startup Disk?

[bentoms]

@Poseiden951 there is also the serveradmin command line for Server.app.

Something like:

sudo servderadmin status netboot

Might help you to get the services status, check the man page though.

[Poseiden951 · Accepted solution]

@bentoms

Solved the issue by removing it from the IP helper, restarting and adding it back. Odd solution.

[bentoms]

@Poseiden951 odd.. well at least you can mark you reply as the answer!