FW: [syslinux] PXE booting

[Luis.F.Correia]

Sorry, I originally send this message to H. Peter only...

-----Original Message-----

Hi!

Strangely enough, I have again the same Fujitsu-Siemens machine which
(still) 
has the same darn PXE bug.

This time I have tested it with Pxelinux 2.02 .

Just to suite it to my specific needs, I have recompiled it, changed only 
this line: (2036)

;cfgprefix	db 'pxelinux.cfg/'		; No final null!
cfgprefix	db '/'		; No final null!

And still it hangs after having downloaded the memdisk image :(

This is the full text I get on screen:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
BootManage PXE-2.0 PROM 1.0. AN983 3.80, SDK 3.0/083 (OEM73) Copyright (C)
1989,2002 bootix Technology GmbH, D-41466 Neuss. PXE Software Copyright (C)
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Intel Corporation. Licensed to FSC GmbH

CLIENT MAC ADDR: xx xx xx xx xx xx GUID: xxx.... (does not matter) CLIENT
IP: 172.26.22.41  MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP 172.26.22.5 GATEWAY IP:
172.26.22.1

PXELINUX 2.03 t Copyright (C) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
UNDI data segment at:   0009B020
UNDI data segment size: 3090 
UNDI code segment at:   0009E0B0
UNDI code segment size: 14E0 
PXE entrypoint found (we hope) at 9E0B:0106
My IP address seems to be AC1A1629 172.26.22.41
ip=172.26.22.41:172.26.22.5:172.26.22.1:255.255.255.0
TFTP prefix:
Trying to load: /AC1A1629
[bla bla bla]
Trying to load: /default
Loading memdisk....
Loading client.ima..........
Ready.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
At this point the machine simply freezes, not even CTRL-ALT-DEL works!


Here is my 'default' file:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
default linux
label linux
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=client.ima
--------------------------------------------------------------------


I hope that with this somewhat full report, some light will shine on my
problem :)





-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:18 PM
To: Luis.F.Correia
Cc: 'Syslinux'
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE booting


Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> Ok, i've tried it.
> 
> The result is exactly the same... it just hangs there.
> 
> I guess it IS a bad bios implementation.
> 
> I am now going to try and find out if there is a bios update for this
> machine. It is strange though, it's a brand-new PC...
> (designed for windoze px...)
> 

Not strange at all.  BIOS quality has been going down, down, DOWN since 
the BIOS is increasingly looked at as just a bootstrap for Windoze.  If 
it boots the latest version of 'doze at the time the machine ships, it's 
"good".

Something else you could try is pxelinux.0 from either 2.00-pre14 (some 
people have had success with -pre14 when it doesn't work with 2.00) or 
with 1.76.

Also, some people have reported, in particular, problems with booting a 
floppy image on a machine with no floppy disk or a hard disk image on a 
machine with no harddisk.

It's still odd; you should be getting *some* output from MEMDISK itself...

	-hpa