[syslinux] more on PXELinux confiuration file woes

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Jun 11 12:59:50 PDT 2003


James Jeffers wrote:
> 
> I performed an experiment in which I had dhcpd specify a named file ("foo")
> instead of
> one based on a client's MAC address. Lo and behold, the same problem
> occured. The PXE
> stack requested and was served the right file, the kernel loaded as did the
> initrd. But again, the
> boot sequence stopped at "Ready."
> 
> Keep in mind that the contents of the file are the same as was in the
> "default" file, which when PXE clients
> requested and used, everything went very smoothly.
> 

This is extremely odd... could you please send a *complete* list of
messages printed during boot?

	-hpa




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