[syslinux] more on PXELinux confiuration file woes and "blkSize"

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 4 11:35:42 PDT 2003


Kasper Fock wrote:
> Hi 
> I just joined this list so sorry i don't just reply folowing mails.
> I experienced the same problem where the boot just stop after reaching Ready. 
> I am using my own tftp server written in Java which previously has succeeded 
> a pxe boot. While searching for the "Ready" problem I found that the 
> tftpserver returned the wrong blksize. Instead off returning the size off the 
> data it returned the size off the packet (diff =4 octets) after solving this 
> my boot went through.
> don't now if this is the problem but worth considering?
> 

With this bug, your very first packet would be an EOF packet, so the 
transfer wouldn't go any further.

In order words, it's no surprise nothing worked.

	-hpa




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