[syslinux] ONERROR not triggered in PXELINUX 3.31 when ramdisk missing

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jan 16 17:33:15 PST 2007


Andreas Kotes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> [20070116 23:44]:
>> Andreas Kotes wrote:
>>> Anyway, not being able to TFTP a file after being loaded via TFTP
>>> ourselves should rather be unlikely - not being able to find the initrd
>>> might happen more easily :)
>> Well, both reflect a similar class of TFTP server problem.
> 
> hmm, well, in the latter case, PXELINUX gets a 'file not found' message,
> rather than something which makes retrying useful ...
> 

When PXELINUX gets an error reply, it stops trying to send that packet 
(and so gives up on that filename.)  It's very quick at that point.

	-hpa




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