[syslinux] PXE booting Dell diagnostics

[Berthold Cogel]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Berthold Cogel wrote:
> 
>>
>> If I skip the first 128 bytes via dd (crasy ... I know ...), memdisk 
>> recognises the image and tries to boot it. memdisk then hangs with the 
>> message 'Loading bootsector... booting...'.
>>
>> So it's not a problem with the path...
>>
> 
> Thinking about it some more...
> 
> Check your TFTP logs, and check your file permissions.
> 
>     -hpa


Oooops!

... the permissions ... O-(


diags.img was readable only for root....

The Dell setup created the file with 600. Striping with dd caused the 
creation of a new file with 644. I should have checked this before.


Thanks!

Berthold