[syslinux] pxe linux

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:00:05PM +0400, Manu Abraham wrote:
> 	My configuration now contains only so much. But still what i get on the 
> client is the same command line BOOT_IMAGE=linux auto

No idea. I would try using tcpdump to see what is going on in general.
Specifically, which config file gets loaded by the client.


Besides, what does pxelinux say? On my system, I see the following
messages:

Broadcom UNDI PXE-2.1 (build 082) v6.2.11
Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Broadcom Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
All rights reserved.

Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.1 (build 083)
Copyright (C) 1997-2001, Intel Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 E0 81 51 D9 2B  GUID: 00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009
CLIENT IP: 192.168.0.101  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.0.10

PXELINUX 2.06 0x3f46af85  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
UNDI data segment at:   000948C0
UNDI data segment size: 4C50
UNDI code segment at:   00099510
UNDI code segment size: 4804
PXE entry point found (we hope) at 9951:00D6
PXELINUX 2.06 0x3f46af85  Copyright (C) 1994-2003 H. Peter Anvin
boot:
Loading vmlinuz-2.4.21-186-smp.........................
Loading rootfs.ext2.gz......................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Ready.
ok
Bootdata ok (command line is initrd=rootfs.ext2.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.4.21-186-smp auto)
Linux version 2.4.21-186-smp (root at x86_64.suse.de) (gcc version 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Mon Feb 2 17:10:45 UTC 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

Which pxelinux version are you using? Do you see rootfs.img loaded?


With kind regards,
Baurjan.