[syslinux] PXELINUX 4.10-pre*

[Shantanu Gadgil]

Hi,

I am seeing very slow startup times for the 4.10-pre14 version.

The 4.04/4.05-pre1 work just fine.

What happens is that there is are extremely large delays (minutes) when the TFTP 

server and client are going through all the "not available' files until they 
reach the
'pxelinux.cfg/default'  file.

(JFYI, The booting has not reached sending the vmlinuz yet.
Unlike some other folks who are seeing slowness errors in the HTTP part)

This TFTP delay is seen on real hardware (Dell Poweredge 2850) or VMWare ESX 
based VMs.
Same for VirtualBox VMs

I am using the e1000 chipset for the LAN for VMWare ESX and VirtualBox.

lspci for the Dell PowerEdge 2850:

# lspci | grep -i eth
06:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 05)
07:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541GI Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 05)
0a:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 04)
0a:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545GM Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (rev 04)

Regards,
Shantanu

> H. Peter Anvinhpa at zytor.com 
> Sun May  8 18:56:06 PDT 2011 
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> I just made a couple of changes... would you mind re-running your vmware > 
>tests? 
>