[syslinux] gpxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 09/13/2009 08:42 PM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> 
> however, I still have a few problems:
> 1. it doesn't always fetch the http config files, in most cases there is a
> long timeout
> 2. sometimes it shows in the web logs that it fetchs the config file, but it
> doesn't show it on the console.
> 3. many times, I want to boot from local disk, however it seems that
> gpxelinux doesnt do that as reliable as pxelinux, using chain.c32 solves the
> problem (so far), I've double checked and confirmed that it works with
> pxelinux where gpxelinux does not.
> 4. if the http server is not responding, it takes a lot of time to try the
> next file (could be talking about 20-30 seconds between each config file)
> 5. if the http server is not responding and localboot does work, the client
> returns to gpxe prompt.
> 
> I've been testing mostly on KVM (which I know that has some issues -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472236), however i've seen
> similar results when testing with VMWares.
> 
> Whats mostly important for me is to have a reliable network booting, if it
> hangs for long time or worse cant boot from local disk, I would have to
> revert to pxelinux.0
> 
> My goal is to integrate gpxelinux in my project - http://theforeman.org
> 

Testing on virtual hardware is cantankerous, since they generally have
even worse BIOSes than real hardware.  However, some of these problems
are probably independent on this.  Collecting Wireshark traces are often
useful in getting debugging network boot failures.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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