[syslinux] Intel Boot Agent 4.0.19

[Keith Josephson]

First, THANKS!  The SYSLINUX/PXELINUX s/w and docs are great.  I have been
able to set up a working server for PXE boot in very little time, using our
existing Win2k DHCP server and a Red Hat 7.2 Linux server for tftp, etc...
It took very little time (compared to an earlier effort 4 months ago.....)
and the pxelinux/menu/memdisk environment is great for us.

The environment seems to support PXE clients up to and including Intel Boot
Agent 4.0.17.  But most of the new systems we are getting use IBA 4.0.19 .
On any of the older clients, i can see the atftpd action in
/var/log/messages - pxelinux.0 goes out, it asks for
pxelinux.cfg/xxxxxxxx....pxelinux.cfg/x, then pxelinux.cfg/default.  Then I
can see the display file specified there go out.  Finally I see memdisk and
an image .  Perfect.  But with the 4.0.19 client, I see pxelinux.0 go out.
Then atftpd says it serving   - nothing.  Which of course, fails - it
retries 4 times, and gives up.  The server is still OK, older clients can
continue to connect.  But the 4.0.19 client just sits there.....  (It has,
at that point displayed the IP parameters it got from DHCP, it displays
TFTP, which then gets erased, and then nothing further happens.)

My guess is that nothing is wrong with pxelinux, but rather that intel now
requires more info from DHCP or something.  Nice of them to break a working
solution....  But I am hoping that you have at least come across this issue
and have found a solution.  Intel is usually pretty good at documenting
revisions, but I haven't found that for IBA.  Maybe you have and know the
answer.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Keith Josephson


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 Keith Josephson
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