[syslinux] 3.07 on VMware 4.5.2-8848

[Richard Hirst]

vmware BIOS issue.  See:

> http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=8341&tstart=0
> 
> You also can look in this mailinglist archive to find some good info on
> this issue

Richard


On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:20:56PM +0300, Liviu Ionescu wrote:
> pxelinux fails on vmware due to a problem in DO_IDLE/check_for_arp. 
> 
> the behaviour is the following: 
> 
> after the boot prompt is displayed the sistem seems frozen, but after a very long time echo is displayed or timeout expires. adding various debug prints in ui.inc showed that sometimes DO_IDLE takes a lot to complete; commenting out the call to pxe in check_for_arp avoids the problem (but probably has other consequences at the UDP level). 
> 
> the problem might be in 
> - the parameters sent to pxenv,
> - the vmware bios pxe code 
> - or even in the virtual machine itself
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Liviu Ionescu
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