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

J.H. warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
Sun May 27 22:44:22 PDT 2007


I've done RHEL 5 installs from an FC6 based system (not terribly
different all told) without any issues, so I can at least confirm that
RHEL 5 installs via pxe.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 22:38 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> RgSalisbury wrote:
> > 
> > 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)  
> > 
> 
> *TO THE SAME CLIENT*????
> 
> What you're describing is a common problem, but I have NEVER seen it be
> a server problem.
> 
> The one thing that might be an issue is if you have a funny firewall
> setup on your server.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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