[syslinux] Pxechn.c32
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 4 11:06:00 PDT 2012
On 05/31/2012 04:34 AM, Arends, R.R. wrote:
>>
>> Ideally, yes. Could you try plain pxelinux.0 without introducung gPXE/IPXE
>> for the moment or even the prebuilt binaries in the binary/source archive?
>> My testing has also been on VMware platforms and was successful.
>
> just tried two things:
> - gpxelinux.0 from the same git build (today) as i use pxechn.c32, but wds still tries to contact my main pxe server instead of wds.
> - pxelinux.0 also from the same git build, and this works. so looks like the gpxe layer is stopping pxechn.c32 from filling in the dhcp packet, note that i use '#!gpxe set use-cached 1' so that the dhcp request isn't done twice (we chainload from undipxe).
>
> might that use-cached be in the way of pxechn.c32 to correctly overwrite the cached packed?
>
No, I think the problem is that you overwrite gPXE's copy of the packet,
which is then lost when gPXE is unloaded.
-hpa
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