[syslinux] gpxelinux 3.70pre7 - keeppxe problem

[Collins, Jeremy]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:53 AM
> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] gpxelinux 3.70pre7 - keeppxe problem
> 
> Collins, Jeremy wrote:
> > First let me say I'm really excited about the possibility 
> of dynamic 
> > menu creation over http using php. When this is stable it will make 
> > maintinging some of our pxelinux infrastructure much 
> easier. Id like 
> > to thank all involved; I'm really looking forward to the 
> gpxe intigration.
> > 
> > After hpa's announment for 3.70pre7 I begain testing. I dropped the 
> > new gpxelinux.0 and new c32 modules into my existing 
> infrastructure. 
> > Except the g/pxelinux.0 and .c32 files everything else is 
> the same as 
> > I use in production with syslinux 3.51. The HTTP fetching seems to 
> > work in my testing so far. I've got menus being dynamically 
> generated 
> > from a PHP script.
> 
> Please make sure you get 3.70-pre8.  3.70-pre7 has a data 
> corruption bug with dynamic content (inherited from the gPXE 
> code base.)
> 
> > I did find that my dos boot disks using keeppxe and the 3com undi 
> > driver no longer work and give the errors 'Set Packet 
> Filter failed' 
> > and
> > 'Error: 255 Unable to Bind'. I'm not sure if keeppxe problem I'm 
> > observing is related to the chainloading other NBPs from 
> gpxelinux.0 
> > problem which isn't working yet according to the announcment or if 
> > it's a separate issue. If it is a separate issue and you would like 
> > something from my test system let me know and I'll try to get it to 
> > you. Thanks again for all the hard work.
> 
> It's possible, although I can't say for sure.  It's 
> definitely *related*, but it "should" work anyway.  Famous 
> last words and all that. 
>    Cleaning up the chainloading issue should definitely fix 
> this issue too.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
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I retested with 3.70-pre8 and it has the same problem still. Once the
chailloading issue is resolved I'll test again and make sure the keeppxe
is also resolved. Thanks, Jeremy Collins