[syslinux] ONERROR not triggered in PXELINUX 3.31 when ramdisk missing
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 16 14:43:15 PST 2007
Andreas Kotes wrote:
> btw, TFTP is done by the PXE ROM itself? All of mine don't seem to honor
> the 'port unreachable' or 'host unreachable' ICMP messages, and insist
> on retrying ;) .. which might actually be a good thing.
No, it's not, it's done by PXELINUX, but the PXE ROM doesn't give
PXELINUX access to ICMP messages unless it implements its own IP stack.
> Anyway, not being able to TFTP a file after being loaded via TFTP
> ourselves should rather be unlikely - not being able to find the initrd
> might happen more easily :)
Well, both reflect a similar class of TFTP server problem.
> P.S: is there a way to get a version from the git repository without
> having to rely on the truly public servers?
No (not unless you have a kernel.org account.)
-hpa
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