[syslinux] Pxelinux freezed

[Samuel Rios Carvalho]

Testing some things that Capriccio said. I changed vesamenu.c32 to
menu.c32. Work perfectly.
no freeze. thanks.

Samuel Rios Carvalho



On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Peter Capriccio <peter.capriccio at hp.com> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:02:39 -0300
>> From: "Samuel Rios Carvalho" <nhawkbr at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Pxelinux freezed
>> To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
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>> This is happen in all clients.
>> isn't laptop, it is a desktop. Here only exist desktops to etherboot.
>> after some seconds, the menu freeze, stop. Ctrl+alt+del don't work too.
>> The operator (me), is scrolling up an down, then after some seconds, stop all.
>> with or without operator, this problem happen.
>>
>> Samuel Rios Carvalho
>>
> Just so we are clear here:
>
> - are all the client machines the same, that is, the same network card,
> BIOS version, etc, or are there a variety of different types of desktops?
>
> You stated, "with or without operator" -- to me that says that in the
> case of no operator intervention, after 10 seconds has elapsed, the
> ONTIMEOUT statement becomes true which should then set the command line
> to "label 1"'s definition:
>
>> ==== START ====
>> >>
>> >> # golf: 192.168.1.67
>> >> DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
>> >> #DEFAULT 1
>> >> PROMPT 0
>> >> MENU TITLE GOLF
>> >> MENU BACKGROUND 40
>> >> menu color sel 7;37;40
>> >> NOESCAPE 1
>> >> ALLOWOPTIONS 0
>> >> TIMEOUT 100
>> >> ONTIMEOUT 1
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> label 1
>> >>   menu label OPENSUSE 11.0
>> >>   kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25-suse
>> >>   append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.5:/mnt/imagens/golf_suse
>> >> ip=::::golf::dhcp rw
>> >>
> If it was unable to find the kernel file, I'm pretty sure that it would
> reload the DEFAULT (vesamenu.c32) and then begin the countdown to the
> TIMEOUT again (or at least that has been my experience). Have you tried
> booting "label 1" locally from, say, SYSLINUX instead of PXELINUX, just
> to eliminate any chance that the PXE BIOS on your [embedded] NIC card
> is, say, crappy?
>
> In the case where you are just scrolling up and down the menu, that
> should stop any TIMEOUT countdown in progress, so I can't understand why
> it should freeze by just scrolling up and down the menu. Can you boot
> any other menu entries? Do you get the same results using the text menu
> (menu.c32)? [I'm clearly grasping at/for straws here]
>
> Here's hoping any of this is helpful and not just adding a lot of noise
> to the list...
>
> Pete Capriccio
>
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