[syslinux] Intel Boot Agent 4.0.19

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Keith Josephson wrote:
> 
>>First, THANKS!  The SYSLINUX/PXELINUX s/w and docs are great.  I have
>>been able to set up a working server for PXE boot in very little time,
>>using our existing Win2k DHCP server and a Red Hat 7.2 Linux server for
>>tftp, etc...  It took very little time (compared to an earlier effort 4
>>months ago.....) and the pxelinux/menu/memdisk environment is great for us.
>> 
>>The environment seems to support PXE clients up to and including Intel
>>Boot Agent 4.0.17.  But most of the new systems we are getting use IBA
>>4.0.19 .  On any of the older clients, i can see the atftpd action in
>>/var/log/messages - pxelinux.0 goes out, it asks for
>>pxelinux.cfg/xxxxxxxx....pxelinux.cfg/x, then pxelinux.cfg/default. 
>>Then I can see the display file specified there go out.  Finally I see
>>memdisk and an image .  Perfect.  But with the 4.0.19 client, I see
>>pxelinux.0 go out.  Then atftpd says it serving   - nothing.  Which of
>>course, fails - it retries 4 times, and gives up.  The server is still
>>OK, older clients can continue to connect.  But the 4.0.19 client just
>>sits there.....  (It has, at that point displayed the IP parameters it
>>got from DHCP, it displays TFTP, which then gets erased, and then
>>nothing further happens.)
>> 

Could you please describe how the DHCP server is set up?

	-hpa