Cannot get through PXE boot: dracut duplicate address problem

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:06:29 -0700, Nat Sincheler <fai1107 at macrotex.net> said:

    > (I realize this is not strictly speaking an FAI issue, but I am hoping 
    > that one you FAI users has a solution.)

    > We are trying to install the old Debian wheezy on a Dell PE 620 using 
    > FAI. The first step is the PXE boot where the wheezy bootstrap image is 
    > downloaded from our tftp server. The boot image downloads and gets quite 
    > far along. However, about 3 or 4 minutes into the PXE boot we see this 
    > error message and then the boot stops:

    > dracut Warning: Duplicate address detected for X.X.X.X while doing dhcp. 
    > retrying
    > dracut Warning: could not boot.

First which dracut version are you using?
add rd.debug to see more debug output of dracut. Also read man
dracut.cmdline to see if more options help you debug the problem.
If dracut stops and drops you into a rescue shell you have some
commands to check you network settings.


-- 
regards Thomas