[syslinux] gpxelinux.0: pxechain to another NBP then RET fails
Gene Cumm
gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Apr 17 12:49:18 PDT 2011
IRC user ernini first noticed this. We both tried using
gpxe/gpxelinux.0 from Syslinux-4.04-pre22. ernini used pxechain to a
commercial NBP which RETs (the same as PXELINUX) and failed. Both of
us had success with core/pxelinux.0 from Syslinux-4.04-pre22.
For my test, I have a VM in VMware Server 2.0.2 (VMHW v7). I loaded
gpxelinux.0 using the VM's built-in PXE ROM. Then I used pxechain.com
to load PXELINUX 4.03 from another directory on the same TFTP server.
At this point, I tried LOCALBOOT -1 and 0. -1 (which executes INT
19h) succeeded while 0 failed. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not reboot the
machine.
I then used gpxe/pxelinux.gpxe and core/pxelinux.0 from
Syslinux-4.04-pre22 and gPXE to test different gPXE versions. Using
1.0.1 results in empty packets being returned to PXELINUX. Using
current top-of-git (commit c780ec8) resolves both issues.
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-Gene
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