[syslinux] SysLinux 5.0 - Problems booting via PXE

[Schlomo Schapiro]

Hi,

I have seen the same effect. We use now 4.05 with gpxelinux.0 for HTTP
downloads and suffer a lot from the super slow download on VMware ESX VMs.

I tried 5.00:

   - I was disappointed to find that only gpxelinux.0 supports HTTP unlike
   the pxelinux.0 from 4.10 which had HTTP built-in.
   - The HTTP download was the same slow as with 4.05
   - The kernel command line was not passed to the system which caused our
   installations to fail (obvious if no install= parameter is given).
   - The PATH setting did not work which is very inconvenient as I would
   like to put all syslinux components (*.c32, *.0) into /bin so that I can
   switch pxelinux+c32 files with a symlink.
   - Loading vesamenu.c32 more than once did not work (I was doing this to
   jump to other menus). As a "workaround" I restructured my menu system to
   only do config xxx.txt which luckily also works with 4.05

Sadly after about 1h of testing I had to go back to the old but stable 4.05.

Kind Regards,
Schlomo

On 9 January 2013 13:58, Shantanu Gadgil <shantanugadgil at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Shao,
>
> This is the exact same symptom that I have see on the 4.10 branch on my
> cluster.
> This was quite some time back, before the v5 and v6 development started.
>
> (FWIW, my interest in the "latest" branches is primarily the HTTP support
> to download the vmlinuz/initrd :) :) )
>
> I have not had the time to test the 5/6 branches.
> Also I don't want to rock the boat just yet! :) :)
>
> Cheers,
> Shantanu
>