[syslinux] PXE booting ASUS NVidia board: odd file not found errors

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri May 18 09:34:23 PDT 2007


Adrian wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get an asus motherboard to netboot.  It has an
> integrated Nvidia boot agent that's supposed to network boot pxe
> happily.
> 

EFI/elilo is offtopic for this mailing list.

> 03:13:35.404007 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  20, id 2, offset 0, flags [none],
> proto: UDP (17), length: 78) 192.168.1.23.2070 > 192.168.1.20.tftp:
> [udp sum ok]  50 RRQ "/debian-installer/ia64/elilo.efiM-^?" octet
> tsize 0

Yup, your firmware is busted.  In particular, it puts a \xff character
at the end of the string.

Upgrade your firmware if you can, but otherwise you can use tftp-hpa's
filename remapping feature to strip the \xff character.

	-hpa




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