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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 19 19:30:25 PDT 2013


Still... it would be interesting to know if it works if you have a chance of testing it on the old firmware.

peter Sjoberg <lpaseen at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 10:08 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 04/18/2013 02:01 PM, peter Sjoberg 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)?
>> > 
>> 
>> You could try lpxelinux.0 from 5.10-pre*.
>Maybe but after seeing it working on a different server (BL460C G6) I
>did bite the bullet and did a firmware upgrade, UNDU PXE 2.0
>3.102.517.701 became 4.2.401.6, and after that gpxelinux.0 works fine
>also (well, still need to figure out what menu.c32 to use, see the
>versions and so on but that's another story).
>
>While it impacts lots of servers we have an environment where it's
>reasonable simple to change how a server network boots so I left one
>option booting pxelinux.0 for when firmware upgrade is needed.

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