[syslinux] PXE Booting linux on a Dell Poweredge SC1435

Sean Lv jie.lv.mvp at gmail.com
Fri Mar 27 22:41:45 PDT 2009


Hello Etienne

	I am not sure SC1435, but if it's Intel NIC built-in, it should
works fine with pxelinux. At least, in my environment, all intel-NIC have NO
compatibility issue with pxelinux.

	When pxelinux is booting, you can try holding SHIFT on your
keyboard, and input the boot command manually. 

	You'd better paste your configuration file here to narrow the
reason. 


Sean Lv




-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of Etienne Le Sueur
Sent: 2009年3月28日 7:19
To: Ian McDonald
Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE Booting linux on a Dell Poweredge SC1435

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your input - I updated to the latest BIOS before I sent mail 
to the list.

I will check the RAM, but I have my doubts. I just wish there was a way 
to get PXE to spit out some more verbose information about what it's 
actually doing.

--
Etienne


Ian McDonald wrote:
> Etienne Le Sueur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to boot via TFTP using PXE, and it gets an IP, and "TFTP 
>> ." flashes before disappearing, and the machine hangs.
>>
>> This TFTP server and DHCP setup is known to work with many other 
>> machines.
>>
>> Can anyone help me debug this problem?
>>
>> What can I do to make the pxe output more verbose?
>>
>
> I know this might sound stupid, but have you run memtest86+ on the 
> box/got the very latest bios/firmwares for it on it?
>
> I've been using pxelinux since 2002, and barring ancient/cr*p firmware 
> on network cards, the last time I spent any significant time debugging 
> something like this, I ended at bad ram.
>
> Regards
>

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