[syslinux] 5.01 problems with gpxelinux.0 (file paths related TFTP and HTTP)

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 02/07/2013 04:01 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 12:21 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
>> Looks like the 209 DHCP option isn't working properly - the path used to
>> lookup archiso.cfg is garbled.
>>
>> Thanks for the report, I'll look into it.
> 
> OK, I see what's going on here. This stems from the PATH directive
> changes that I've been making recently.
> 
> PXELINUX changes directory to the Prefix Path (option 210) before
> executing ldlinux.c32. If we don't find ldlinux.c32 in that path we'll
> search a list of predefined directories for it, and when we find it we
> chdir() to the directory we find it in. When we come to load the config
> file we've moved out of the prefix path and so fail to load your
> archiso.cfg.
> 
> I've committed a fix for this and done a new release,
> syslinux-5.02-pre1. Can you test it out and see if your issue is
> resolved?
> 

OK I made two test, one with TFTP only, and other with HTTP only. Both
still fails.

Here is log details:

For TFTP:
---
dnsmasq-tftp: sent /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch/boot/syslinux/gpxelinux.0
to 192.168.0.90
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch/ldlinux.c32 not found
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//ldlinux.c32 not found
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/isolinux/ldlinux.c32
not found
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//isolinux/ldlinux.c32 not found
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/syslinuxldlinux.c32
not found
dnsmasq-tftp: file /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/syslinuxldlinux.c32
not found
dnsmasq-tftp: sent /run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32
to 192.168.0.90
dnsmasq-tftp: error 0 No error, file close received from 192.168.0.90
dnsmasq-tftp: failed sending
/run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 to 192.168.0.90
dnsmasq-tftp: file
/run/archiso/bootmnt/arch//boot/syslinuxboot/syslinux/archiso.cfg not found
---
---
PXELINUX 5.02 5.02-pre1  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found!
boot:
---

And for HTTP:

---
1360279951 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch/boot/syslinux/gpxelinux.0" 200 102299
"" "iPXE/1.0.0+"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch/ldlinux.c32" 404 383 "" "gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//ldlinux.c32" 404 384 "" "gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//boot/isolinux/ldlinux.c32" 404 398
"" "gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//isolinux/ldlinux.c32" 404 393 ""
"gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//boot/syslinuxldlinux.c32" 404 397 ""
"gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32" 200
114610 "" "gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET /arch//boot/syslinuxhttp/ldlinux.c32" 404
402 "" "gPXE/1.0.0"
1360279952 192.168.0.90 "GET
/arch//boot/syslinux//192.168.0.218/arch//boot/syslinux/ldlinux.c32" 404
433 "" "gPXE/1.0.0"
---

PXELINUX 5.02 5.02-pre1  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al

Failed to load ldlinux.c32
Boot failed: press... (message from qemu-kvm)


If more info is needed please let me know. Thanks for the feedback.


-- 
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1



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