[syslinux] which should I use: TIMEOUT, ONTIMEOUT, or ONERROR ?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Anthony.Golia at morganstanley.com wrote:
> Hi.  I'm trying to get around the problem of an overloaded tftp server 
> causing a pxelinux client hanging at the boot: prompt, waiting for input 
> (no one will input anything to it).  The server is OK enough to give the 
> pxebootloader but not the config file, as in this thread:
> 
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2004-June/003662.html
> 
> So, in that case, I guess setting TIMEOUT to some reasonable positive 
> value would help.  But, assuming it never got a config file, how would i 
> get the box to automatically reboot or localboot?
> 

Upgrade your pxelinux.  Newer versions of pxelinux consider it a fatal 
error to not fetch its configuration file, and triggers the "reboot 
after five minutes" (which can be adjusted via DHCP option 211.)

	-hpa