[syslinux] Has anyone any insight as to why RedHat Enterprise Level 5 is broken as far as PXE booting is concerned.

[RgSalisbury]

Hi ALL


Has anyone any insight as to why RedHat Enterprise Level 5 is broken as far as PXE booting is concerned.


Is there a Protocol communication problem ????????

Are there alternative tftp-severs that work for the RHEL5.. 

It seems:

the PXE CLIENT when booting cannot access files in  the "pxelinux.cfg" dir

RHEL4 works just fine !!  ( kernel 2.6.9-22.EL) with (tftp-server-0.39-1.i386.rpm)

But RHEL5 seems to be broken..... is the TFTP SERVER broken (tftp-server-0.42-3.1.i386.rpm)  


Client very SLOWLY displays thus:

Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1000FD
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1000F
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1000
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC100
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC10
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC1
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/AC
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/A
Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default



Message log :
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dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 172.16.0.253 (172.16.0.254) from 00:01:6c:ca:24:7b via eth1
dhcpd: DHCPACK on 172.16.0.253 to 00:01:6c:ca:24:7b via eth1
xinetd[3173]: START: tftp pid=3238 from=172.16.0.253
in.tftpd[3239]: RRQ from 172.16.0.253 filename pxelinux.0
in.tftpd[3239]: tftp: client does not accept options
in.tftpd[3240]: RRQ from 172.16.0.253 filename pxelinux.0

*** AND STOPS here **

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the "tftp: client does not accept options"  doesn't seem to be a problem as it is generated on RHEL4 servers & the pxe booting still  WORKS.

Enviroment details:

OS:        RHEL5
KERNEL:    Kernel 2.6.18-8.el5
SERVER:    tftp-server-0.42-3.1.i386.rpm
NIC:       INTEL 82801BA/CA  # server

THanks  in advance
Roger