[syslinux] pxe weirdness

[Erwan Velu]

> I successfully get an IP address from my DHCP server, but the machine 
> fails when it attempts to make it's TFTP connection with:
> 
> "PXE-E32 - TFTP Open timeout"
> 
> It never gets the pxelinux.0 file.
Your DHCP server must give the "next server" option to specify the TFTP
server.
In dhcpd.conf, you must use for example:

# IP of you TFTP server
next-server 192.168.100.37;

Then be sure that your tftp server is activated and running:
 cat /etc/xinetd.d/tftp | grep disable 
 service xinetd restart

Then some Broken PXE roms needs the blksize option:
In /etc/xinetd.d/tftp : server_args		= -r blksize

Hope it will helps for your problem,
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Erwan Velu
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