[syslinux] Which version shall i choose ?

[Christoph Hanle]

THX, helps a lot

On 17.08.2013 15:09 Gene Cumm wrote:
> Can you deal with a client taking 1-4 minutes to just fetch files?  If
> not, you will have a performance issue.
> 
Unfortunally not, the performance issue is known )-:

> 
> Where does startrom.0 come from?  Some Windows file?
>
I don't know, it is build by the company where we get the .nbis from
> 
> So planning to direct load of kernel/initrd files or use MEMDISK?
> 
Use of MEMDISK as standard and for mass production.
kernel/memdisk will be only used for non critical software, but this can
change each day.

> 
>> - the "standard" .iso will grow to 60MB or more
> 
> I don't know any tftpd that can't handle this (albeit slowly).
>
The performance will be the problem. For now we have for more than 50
boots (25 MB images) at the same time a significant performance problem,
if additional assets boot there can be a stop until the first assets
have finished their booting, independent of the tftp implementation.
So i will get rid of tftp.

>> - switch from TFTP to HTTP (at least for the .isos)
>> - must be live for production at all locations at the 1st of April 2014
> 
> That's quite a bit of time away.  Any idea how much testing needs to
> be completed first?
(-:
the syslinux-part is less than 1/5th of the changings I have to do;
and it is not visible to the end users, they expect a running and fast
system.
> 
>> Unfortunally i will get next week the first 60MB.iso for testing.
> 
> For a first run at this time, I'd consider gpxelinux.0 from 4.07 or
> perhaps 5.01/5.02-pre3/5.11-pre9 and keep an eye on bug #19 (
> http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19 ) for possibly
> switching to lpxelinux.0.
Yes, makes sense.
I think I will use gxpelinux.0 from 4.07 or 4.05 for "quick and dirty"
boot and have the 5.1x with gpxelinux.0 or lpxelinux.0 in the lab and
testing phase.

bye
Christoph
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