[syslinux] syslinux.efi hangs during PXE boot

[Geert Stappers]

Summary: "update" recieved

Op 2013-12-22 om 03:35 schreef Roman:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Geert Stappers 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.

Yes please, provide information that does 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.
> >

This time more expliciet:

  Provide a pcap file if you want more eye balls on a tcpdump


> > > 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?

That is a wrong, a completely wrong understanding of my previous posting.

New attempt, different approach:


Hello Roman,

 From your (text) network dump did I recognise two IPv4 networks.
I did remind me of simular post that was a few weeks ago on this mailinglist.
Visit this ML archive how that went.


See http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html for the bigger picture.



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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