[syslinux] Can not boot using pxelinux

[Quinn]

Judging by the client side messages, pxelinux is not the issue at this 
point.  Try and
configure your dhcpd server to load a linux kernel directly instead of 
pxelinux.0 and
see if it hangs the same way.  If the test fails, check your network and 
dhcp/tftp
settings.

Another possibility is the client architecture - is it a i386 based 
processor?  Pxelinux
will not run on non-i386 processors like PowerPC, Arm, etc.  Via C3 
should be i386,
but doing the 1st check above with a linux kernel (compiled for i386) 
should determine
if C3 is i386 compatible.

Hope this helps,

Quinn


Andrew Soroka wrote:

>I have fedora3 runing tftp.
>The server log shows that the client has requested the bootfile
>
>May 19 02:04:57 mouse dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 00:0d:60:00:8c:b9 via eth0
>May 19 02:04:57 mouse dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.2.200 to mercury
>(00:0d:60:00
>:8c:b9) via eth0
>May 19 01:04:58 mouse in.tftpd[3422]: RRQ from 192.168.2.200 filename
>pxelinux.0
>
>On the client side I can see the following
>Bootp
>TFTP.......
>
>Then a blinking cursor.
>
>Is almost as if pxelinux.0 was not running or was not reading its config
>file.
>
>I have /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default as my config file.
>
>Its contents are 
>
>DEFAULT memdisk
>LABEL memdisk
>      Display HelloWorld.txt
>      KERNEL vmlinuz
>      APPEND initrd=initrd.img
>
>Note I have tried memdisk and a doss boot floppy image but to no avail.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>The client machine is a via C3, I wonder if I need to recompile the pxelinux
>for this cpu.
>
>Cheers
>Andrew
>
>
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