[syslinux] localboot in pxelinux recurses back into pxelinux then eventually crashes

[Gene Cumm]

On Nov 22, 2011 4:46 AM, "Vanush Misha" <misha at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
>
> hi Gene,
>
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:26:08 -0500 Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 05:54, Vanush Misha <misha at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
> > > I did some more investigation: for me the "infinite loop" starts
> > > when I move from version 3.84 to 3.85 (and not between 3.82 and
> > > 3.83 as reported by Denie Andriessen). Are pre-releases of 3.85
> > > available anywhere for download?
> > >
> > > What other debugging steps can I take to narrow this problem down?
> > >
> > > Misha.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Any chance you could try 4.04 or the current 4.05-pre release
> > (currently 4.05-pre6;
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/4.05/ )?
> > It comes precompiled so you only need to temporarily replace
> > pxelinux.0 and the modules you use.
>
> I can confirm that both 4.04 and 4-05-pre6 loop back to initializing
> network card and retrievint pxeboot.0 from tftp server again after
> showing "Booting from local disk, PXE-M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM. "
> lines. Will go through 3.85 pre-releases later today.
>
> Misha

Tried LOCALBOOT 0 and -1?  This sounds similar by symptom but is different
enough that knowing the make/model, BIOS, and whether the NIC in question
is built-in (LoM; LAN on motherboard)?

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-Gene