[syslinux] Re: problem and maybe bug in 2.08 and later with vmware 4.5.1

Timothy Legge tlegge at rogers.com
Sun May 23 17:40:23 PDT 2004


On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 16:26, Arkadiusz Patyk wrote:
> >I found a problem with pxelinux in 2.08 and 2.09pre13 when working with
> >vmware 4.5.1 (the latest with builtin support fpr pxe-boot). With 2.07 and
> >2.01 it works without problems. But when trying the later versions there is
[snip]
> I have this same problem with pxelinux 2.09 and 2.10-pre3.
> pxelinux-2.07 works fine.
> vmware 4.5.1build 7568 runing on windows xp

Rule of thumb:

When you have two applications, one open source and one closed source,
the bug is in the closed source ;-)

If VMWare's built in pxe won't work, Etherboot's pcnet32 driver should
work and the 5.3 cvs supports pxe...

Tim




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