[syslinux] chainbooting pxe servers stalls

Sean Mitchuson smitchuson at murraystate.edu
Mon Sep 10 09:34:35 PDT 2012


That's exactly what I think my problem is and I'm currently working on
fixing it.

I will reply again with my findings.  Thank you.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 10, 2012 11:09 AM, "Sean Mitchuson" <smitchuson at murraystate.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've started using pxe servers for OS deployment at my organization and
> I'm
> > trying to get chainbooting working but I seem to run into an issue that
> > causes a hard lock up of a system.
> >
> > MENU BEGIN ^1. Boot Satellite PXE
> >         LABEL Satellite PXE
> >         KERNEL pxechain.com
> >         APPEND (Server IP Address)::pxelinux.0
> > Is part of my config file for my main pxe server to boot over to the
> > satellite based pxe server but when I choose this option I see
> > TFTP boot: (server ip address) pxelinux.0 and it locks up the machine and
> I
> > have to hard reset it.
> >
> > So I'm not sure where you start troubleshooting.
>
> For each server, what version of PXELINUX and where did you obtain the
> binaries?  Did you build them yourself?
>
> Could
>
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Common_Problems#PXE_Calls_in_4.00-4.03apply
> (for the source PXELINUX)?
>
> If not, could you describe the machines you've tested with?  Make, model,
> BIOS revision/version?  If not using an onboard NIC with the BIOS's PXE
> OROM, please describe the NIC and the PXE stack you're using.
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