[syslinux] question regarding pxeboot (kernel memdisk)

Tim Bates tin at new-life.org.au
Sat Jul 12 22:12:04 PDT 2008


CHEN Xu wrote:
> The problem happens at:
>
> label xxx
>   kernel memdisk
>   initrd blabla
>
> My machine would report "cannot find kernel: memdisk". When doing a
> tcpdump, I found the machine actually is sending requests for
> "memdisk", "memdisk.c" memdisk.* to the tftp server - of coz, I don't
> have them.
OK, the problem as I read it, is that you haven't copied memdisk to your 
TFTP root.... Or it's permissions are denying access.
Copy the file "memdisk" from the syslinux tar/package to your TFTP root, 
and then make sure it's permissions are allowing the TFTP server to read 
it (644 should do it).

TB




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