[syslinux] Failing to fetch the PXELINUX config file

[Curtis Doty]

7:01am Curtis Doty said:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >
> > filesystem-based ones.)  I don't think anyone uses pxelinux without a
> > configuration file.
> 
> Agreed. It is my hope that a missing config via tftp is an error
> followed by a reboot; not an indefinite hang awaiting user intervention.
> And maybe after some period of polite delay. This would make
> headless/remote pxelinux more robust.

And even better, I made a hack that appears to work exactly as I desire. 
Many thanks for making asm a quite interesting read. :-)

../C

--- syslinux-3.20-pre9/pxelinux.asm.orig	2006-05-24 20:00:05.000000000 -0700
+++ syslinux-3.20-pre9/pxelinux.asm	2006-07-13 10:42:09.000000000 -0700
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@
 		dec di
 		loop .tryagain
 
-		jmp no_config_file
+		jmp kaboom
 
 .success: