[syslinux] 3com 3c905b - pxe boot failure

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 26 10:09:03 PST 2004


Emir Imamagic wrote:
> 
> Client machine successfully gets pxelinux.0 and then everything 
> stops(see listing below).
> I've tried with xinetd-2.3 and syslinux 1.76, but the result is always 
> the same.
> I'm quite sure that the problem is in my configuration somewhere,
> 
> thanx in advance
> 
> emir
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
> 
> Output on client:
> Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) v 4.30
> (C) Copyright 2000 Lanworks Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of 
> 3Com Corporation
> 
> Node 000475F7DB60
> DHCP ...............
> TFTP  ...............
 >

If this is all you see, then it has correctly downloaded pxelinux.0 but 
the network stack isn't starting it.

MBA really seems to be one of the PXE stacks from hell.  I presume 
you've already verified you're running the latest version?

	-hpa




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