[syslinux] SysLinux 5.0 - Problems booting via PXE

Herwig Burgert herwig.burgert at hhjb.it
Tue Jan 8 15:48:48 PST 2013


Hello SysLinux Team,

I have recently installed version 5.0of SysLinuxwhat may be I should not have
done so.
Now my problem is, that everytime I start via PXE (gpxe) I only get the boot:
prompt and
not the menu as expected (all was working fine with previous versions incl 4.06)

In the server log I can see atftpd serving some files to the workstation but not
as before
where it tried to find the right 'default' file (syslinux.cfg) in the way:
.../gpxelinux.0
.../pxelinux.cfg/<mac-address>
.../pxelinux.cfg/<guid>
.../pxelinux.cfg/<mac-address formatted>
.../pxelinux.cfg/<ip-address 0x[0..7]>
.../pxelinux.cfg/<ip-address0x[0..6]>
.../pxelinux.cfg/<ip-address 0x[0..5]>
...
.../pxelinux.cfg/<ip-address 0x[0]>
.../pxelinux.cfg/default
.../menu.c32
...

it now stops searching after the first mac-address:

.../gpxelinux.0
.../ldlinux.c32
.../pxelinux.cfg/<mac-address>
...

So what I am doing wrong?

It is verybad that the new dependencies between modules andlibfiles aren't
described or aren't
described in a better way. But here it must be something else.If I then start
the menu from the boot
prompt all behaves like it should.

Best regards



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