[syslinux] mboot.c32, NUMA and tgz

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 21 14:32:51 PDT 2009


Hansen, Timbonicus 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?
> 

Uh, no.  If you're booting over PXE, it uses pxelinux.0 *instead* of
isolinux.bin.

	-hpa

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