[syslinux] mboot.c32, NUMA and tgz

[Hansen, Timbonicus]

After following the steps in the PDF, I'm still running into a problem. The PXE boot works fine and it starts loading the ESXi 4.0 files, but hangs eternal on sys.vgz. Here's what the console shows:

Boot:
Loading /ESXi4.0Boot/vmkboot.gz... ok
Loading /ESXi4.0Boot/vmk.gz... ok
Loading /ESXi4.0Boot/sys.vgz... _ (blinking cursor)

This is with a fresh isolinux.bin and mboot.c32 from 3.82. We are using pxelinux.0 which I haven't replaced, but since it gets past the PXE stage fine I wouldn't think that's the problem. Any advice on troubleshooting steps?

Thanks,

Tim Hansen
timbonicus.hansen at hp.com

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 2:58 PM
To: For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] mboot.c32, NUMA and tgz

Gene Cumm wrote:
> 
> In ESXi 4.0, it is still (unfortunately) experimental.  See 
> http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_4_pxe_boot_esxi.pdf for information. 
> This may be a less-known and almost private PDF as searching in
> Google for a link shows only a link from vsphere-land.com.
> 
> One can only hope they find a nice solution soon as this would be a 
> nice feature.  All it should need (down the road; don't know if 
> they're doing this) are the boot files and either to know where the 
> vCenter server is for configuration or a small config file.
> 

A note on this PDF:

The clause:

label ESXi
menu label Boot VMware ESXi
kernel mboot.c32
"append vmkboot.gz --- vmk.gz --- sys.vgz --- cim.vgz --- oem.tgz ---
license.tgz ipappend 2"

Obviously needs to be:

label ESXi
menu label Boot VMware ESXi
kernel mboot.c32
append vmkboot.gz --- vmk.gz --- sys.vgz --- cim.vgz --- oem.tgz ---
license.tgz
ipappend 2

[where license.tgz is at the end of the "append" line... f*cking
Thunderbird editor doesn't let one override a linewrap.]

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


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