[syslinux] Issue with pxelinux

[Matt Burgess]

Mr. Anvin,

I have noticed that PXELINUX release 3.10 has fixed this issue. Is this 
something you did explicitly, or was it by chance? Out of curiosity, what 
was the fix?

Thanks for your help,

Matt Burgess

On 6/27/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> 
> Matt Burgess wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I work with clusters at IBM.
> >
> > We use pxelinux to network boot dos images to do flash updates on our
> > machines. We are having an issue with our machines: x336 (intel based)
> > x346 (intel based) and HS20 (intel based blade)
> >
> > The problem is that if we choose to boot from the local disk in
> > pxelinux, the machine hangs. The interesting thing is that this
> > problem does not present itself when using pxelinux 2.13 or less, but
> > does with 3.00 and higher.
> >
> > Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> 
> Since you, unlike me, have access to the hardware, it would be better if
> you could try some debugging, including figure out exactly which
> prerelease broke the setup.
> 
> -hpa
>