[syslinux] Problems with old hardware

[abo2]

Sorry all

I think it is juste a problem of understanding


I use pxelinux (file = pxelinux.0)
it is working since I have "Boot:" on the console
Then I have a kernel image in the directory 
this kernel image have a label named "pxe" 

So I type pxe to boot the choosen kernel

Then I saw in ethereal that only 35 packets are going though the tftp

Then on the console I have the digit explained in a previous mail scrolling

The computer is a Zenith N-Station (1997) with a intel eepro100 inside
(directly on the motherboard) with a "LANDesk software version 0.98i"

ll /tftpboot/

-rw-rw-rw-    1 da      da       1263339 2002-11-16 22:44 linux.bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root       10072 2002-11-16 20:34 pxelinux.0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root        4096 2002-11-16 21:41 pxelinux.cfg
-rw-rw-rw-    1 da      da       1439894 2002-11-16 20:30 rootfs.gz

dda at prony:/tftpboot$ more pxelinux.cfg/C0A80001 
PROMPT 1
LABEL pxe
KERNEL linux.bin
APPEND initrd=rootfs.gz flavor=bf2.4
IPAPPEND 1


Ask me for more details if it is still not clear

Bye








En réponse à Josef Siemes <jsiemes at web.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> abo2 <abo2 at awalis.com> schrieb am 20.11.02 08:14:15:
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:18:38 -0800
> > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > abo2 wrote:
> > > > For your information (maybe it can help) when I only use bootp 
> > > > I saw in ethereal that 1024 packets are sent to the card
> > > > The rest is ignored
> > > > It seems to be the limit of 640K images
> > > You're not trying to download a zImage kernel, are you?
> > 
> > humm yes ;-P (even a bzImage) do I do wrong ? 
> > I was talking about bootp protocol directly in this case (no
> pxelinux)
> > My image is tfpboot.img
> 
> 'bzImage' is different from 'zImage', but I hope that you already knew
> this. 
> zImage is obsolete, since it is limited in kernel size. bzImage doesn't
> have
> this limitation.
> 
> What did you try to do? What network card do you have, and especially
> what
> rom is on it? Is it a PXE rom, or something else? If it's a PXE Rom you
> need some
> sort of bootloader (e.g. pxelinux), if it's something different (e.g. an
> etherboot
> rom) you need to do something else (but that's sort out of scope for
> this
> list ...)
> 
> > But when I use pxelinux, i change my dhcpd.conf and I use pxelinux.0 
> > then I have the "Boot:" and then I ask for my image that have the
> LABEL pxe
> 
> If you get the Boot:-prompt (and some messages from pxelinux before) you
> are quite
> far on the way to a bootable client. Try to put some kernel image in the
> same directory
> where pxelinux.0 resides, enter this kernel on the boot prompt. You
> should see the
> kernel being downloaded, and panicking for a missing root filesystem. So
> the only thing
> you miss here is some root FS or some suitable initrd.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Josef
> 
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