[syslinux] syslinux.efi hangs during PXE boot

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Sat Dec 21 08:07:09 PST 2013


Op 2013-12-20 om 12:05 schreef Roman:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to boot 64bit version of syslinux.efi through network. But
> booting is freezes with following message:
> Getting cached packets
> My IP is X.X.X.X

That is a very strange IPv4 address ...


> the last file that was requested through tftp is syslinux.efi.
> I'm using precompiled binary from official syslinux-6.02.tar.gz.
> 
> Here is the dump in ASCII - http://brom.in/dumps/syslinux-20131220.txt

01:48:53.357724 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 62, id 25667, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 61)
    192.168.1.1.1971 > 10.0.0.1.69: [udp sum ok]  33 RRQ "bootx64.efi" octet blksize 1468
01:48:53.358430 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 62406, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 43, bad cksum 0 (->c26e)!)
    10.0.0.1.22448 > 192.168.1.1.1971: [udp sum ok] UDP, length 15
01:48:53.358756 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 62, id 25668, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 32)
    192.168.1.1.1971 > 10.0.0.1.22448: [udp sum ok] UDP, length 4
01:48:53.358835 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 47893, offset 0, flags [none], proto UDP (17), length 1500, bad cksum 0 (->f56e)!)
    10.0.0.1.22448 > 192.168.1.1.1971: [udp sum ok] UDP, length 1472


The preferred file format for tcpdumps is "pcap".

Create them with the -w option.

> 
> Any help is appreciated.

As I see it,
is it related to TFTP-across-a-router-problem from a few weeks ago.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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