[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 Unable to locate configuration file while pxelinux.0 works

[peter Sjoberg]

On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 17:52 -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:01 PM, peter Sjoberg <lpaseen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a situation very similar to whats in
> > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-January/019251.html
> >
> > The server is setup to provide info over dhcp+tftp and I'm planning on
> > chaning that to dhcp+http so I copied gpxelinux.0 to pxelinux.0 and
> > started failing.
> > The client (in my case it's a hp proliant BL460c G7) manage to get
> > gpxelinux.0 loaded but when it comes to load the config file it slowly
> > walks down the pxelinux.cfg/* files until it hits the end and give up.
> >
> > On server side I see the first requests for gpxelinux.0 but after that
> > it's nothing coming, even checked with tcpdump and nothing from the
> > client ip.
> > I have tried the precompiled version of gpxelinux.0 of version
> > 4.02,4.04,4.06 & 5.01 - all fail.
> > Use pxelinux.0 with everything else the same and it works.
> >
> > Any clue on what is going on? What can I do (besides stay with tftp)?
> 
> Likely misbehaving UNDI stack.  Although undesirable, it's not
> unusual.  Are the server and client on the same subnet?
Nope, different subnets and no way I can put them on same. 
>   Tried
> checking for a BIOS update or NIC firmware update?
No and even if it would work it would still be an issue because the way
we do firmware upgrades is boot network and select a different menu
point then the default "boot local disk".
And that means if I would upgrade this blade to latest fw rev and it
works I still have a few hundred out there that will fail.

> --
> -Gene

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