[syslinux] 5.01 problems with gpxelinux.0 (file paths related TFTP and HTTP)

[Matt Fleming]

On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 20:49 -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> On 02/07/2013 04:01 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 12:21 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> >> Looks like the 209 DHCP option isn't working properly - the path used to
> >> lookup archiso.cfg is garbled.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the report, I'll look into it.
> > 
> > OK, I see what's going on here. This stems from the PATH directive
> > changes that I've been making recently.
> > 
> > PXELINUX changes directory to the Prefix Path (option 210) before
> > executing ldlinux.c32. If we don't find ldlinux.c32 in that path we'll
> > search a list of predefined directories for it, and when we find it we
> > chdir() to the directory we find it in. When we come to load the config
> > file we've moved out of the prefix path and so fail to load your
> > archiso.cfg.
> > 
> > I've committed a fix for this and done a new release,
> > syslinux-5.02-pre1. Can you test it out and see if your issue is
> > resolved?
> > 
> 
> OK I made two test, one with TFTP only, and other with HTTP only. Both
> still fails.
> 
> Here is log details:

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Thanks for testing. Could you try the new 5.02-pre2 release?

Out of curiosity, how do you specify DHCP options for qemu-kvm?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center