[syslinux] My last try to fix memdisk boot problem

[Bernd Krautmann]

Hi Andrew,

thanks for your help. Yesterday we made some tests, and we have no hardware 
problem, cause I was able to boot memdisk from a remote network. It seems to 
be, that the tftp server causes this kind of problem. Today I try to run PXE 
from SuSE Linux, and when it works I can say for sure, that it must be the 
tftp server.

Best regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Stuart" <andrew at shopcusa.com>
To: "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] My last try to fix memdisk boot problem


> reg at krautmann.net wrote:
> --snip--
>> AGAIN: It worked already with the same hardware....no changes
>>
> --snip--
>>
>> regards
>> Bernd
>
> Bernd,
>
> Not knowing when the last time it worked was, have you ran memtest or some 
> other memory test? Have you checked to see if the system is overheating 
> (loose/bad fan/heat sink/clip).
>
> I am more of a hardware guy, so I see hardware issue. Both should be 
> relatively painless to confirm, assuming the box is local.
>
> Memory goes bad, fans fail, capacitors blow, in other words, 'no changes.. 
> that you are aware of'.
>
> Hardware failure seems logical, if one assumes nothing has changed. You 
> didn't mention if you have changed any software prior to the breakage.
>
> Was any software changed prior to things not working / before you started 
> making changes to configs and newer versions of memdisk? Also you didn't 
> mention that you used a newer version of pxelinux. Memdisk MUST be matched 
> with the same version of pxelinux, otherwise the results are 
> unpredictable.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -Andrew
>
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