[syslinux] chainbooting pxe servers stalls

[Sean Mitchuson]

Yeah sorry I must have missed that.  I found out later those msg's are from
my spacewalk pxe and that doesn't have everything running right in relation
to syslinux and tftp so its null.

This is only for VM's there is no more mixed hardware in our environment
these are all Cisco ESX hosts which have all recently been upgraded to
their lastest version bios (not sure right now and the VM ware guy is out)
The main pxe server is currently running from syslinux 4.02 and my other
two pxe servers have 3.11 installed on them.




On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 12:57 -0500, Sean Mitchuson wrote:
> > Another update to my situation.  I'm currently using pxechain.com from
> > version 4.04 and tried one of my other pxe servers and got these two
> lines
> > pxechain: PXENV_RESTART_TFTP [0001]
> > pxechain: PXENV_UDP_OPEN [0001]
>
> What version of PXELINUX are you using?
> Also, Gene's earlier question still applies:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> The messages you got mean the PXE stack failed to download and transfer
> control to the next NBP, which is what PXENB_RESTART_TFTP should have
> done.  Unfortunately, the status code 0x0001 means "general failure";
> your BIOS isn't providing any more detailed information.
>
> This could mean the TFTP server is configured improperly, or doesn't
> have the file you asked for, or some firewall is interfering, or any
> number of other things.  It could also mean a problem with your BIOS.
>
>
>
> -- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+ at cmu.edu>
>    Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
>
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