[syslinux] mboot.c32, NUMA and tgz

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

--On Tuesday, July 21, 2009 09:09:02 PM +0000 "Hansen, Timbonicus" 
<timbonicus.hansen at hp.com> wrote:

> 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?

As noted previously, if you're using PXE, then pxelinux.0 is the syslinux 
core.  Its version must match that of mboot.c32.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+ at cmu.edu>
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA