[syslinux] pxelinux fails to load miniroot completly

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Feb 26 08:03:11 PST 2008


Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 25-02-2008 om 14:21 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
>> I'll try to reproduce this in simulation and see if I can figure out 
>> what's going on.
> 
> For all those who also what to reproduce it
> [1]
> 
>   wget http://download.uib.de/debian/dists/etch/opsi3.2/binary-i386/opsi-linux-bootimage_20080207-1_all.deb
>   mkdir opsi
>   cd opsi
>   ar x ../opsi-linux-bootimage_20080207-1_all.deb
>   tar xzf data.tar.gz
> 
> and
> 
>   ls tftpboot/linux
> 
> will show you the place of the kernel and the initrd
> 

I tried it in simulation, using a CD-ROM image and 3.62-pre14, and it 
works perfectly.  I did, however, find a bug in one of the development 
branches that I fixed, though ;)

	-hpa




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