[syslinux] which should I use: TIMEOUT, ONTIMEOUT, or ONERROR ?
Golia, Anthony (IT)
Anthony.Golia at morganstanley.com
Tue Apr 22 12:17:00 PDT 2008
Thanks so much. So do I have to send dhcp option 211 or is the default
5 mins?
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Sent: Tue Apr 22 14:32:04 2008
Subject: Re: [syslinux] which should I use: TIMEOUT, ONTIMEOUT, or
ONERROR ?
Anthony.Golia at morganstanley.com wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to get around the problem of an overloaded tftp
server
> causing a pxelinux client hanging at the boot: prompt, waiting for
input
> (no one will input anything to it). The server is OK enough to give
the
> pxebootloader but not the config file, as in this thread:
>
> [1]http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003662.html
>
> So, in that case, I guess setting TIMEOUT to some reasonable positive
> value would help. But, assuming it never got a config file, how
would i
> get the box to automatically reboot or localboot?
>
Upgrade your pxelinux. Newer versions of pxelinux consider it a fatal
error to not fetch its configuration file, and triggers the "reboot
after five minutes" (which can be adjusted via DHCP option 211.)
-hpa
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