[syslinux] Syslinux 6.x EFI PXE

[Celelibi]

2013/12/5, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>:
> On 12/04/2013 02:58 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Adam Sawyer <acsawyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I have scoured the mailing list and the web and I can't seem to find any
>>> help on this issue. I am attempting to have EFI machines boot over PXE
>>> and
>>> then load various Linux Live distributions. I have a similar setup over
>>> standard BIOS machines and all is well on that end. First I have tried
>>> SysLinux 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 for various EFI enabled machines and thus far
>>> 6.1 gets me to the furthest point.
>>>
>>> My clients successfully boot over PXE and grab the relevant files over
>>> TFTP
>>> to get me to a simple selection menu. I have watched the interaction in
>>> the
>>> TFTP logs and over tcpdump. All is well until I attempt to select a
>>> kernel
>>> (Ubuntu 13.10 vmlinuz.efi). Regardless of where the kernel is located,
>>> nested in a sub-directory of /tftpboot or not, the client always
>>> responds
>>> with "File not found." It is odd since all other support files
>>> (syslinux64.efi, pxelinux.cfg/default, vesamenu.c32, and so forth) have
>>> no
>>> issue.
>>
>> What exact kernel?  This almost sounds familiar to some errors I've
>> seen in the last two months.  What do you observe in the packet
>> capture?
>>
>
> I believe this is exactly the TFTP port number bug.


Actually, this is exactly bug #26
<http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26> the "inode size"
bug.
The port number bug has been introduced between 6.02-pre16 and 6.02
and is only a layer of bug in front of the "inode size" bug.

It would be nice if my patches for bug #26 (inode size) would be
merged into syslinux. And I think Gene Cumm have a better fix for bug
#35 (port number).

And why not catch up on the patches and pull requests sent to the
mailing list? :)

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Celelibi