[syslinux] syslinux.efi hangs during PXE boot

Roman m.list at brom.in
Sat Dec 21 17:35:12 PST 2013


Hello,

On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl>wrote:

> 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 ...
>
>
> this is just a "pattern", may be 192.168.1.1 or may be 192.168.2.100.
Doesn't matter.

> 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.
>
>
> as far as I understand "native" solution is not present at the current
time?


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