[syslinux] SysLinux 5.0 - Problems booting via PXE

[Matt Fleming]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 00:48 +0100, Herwig Burgert wrote:
> 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>
> ...

I can't reproduce this problem. Can you please describe your
pxelinux.cfg/ layout more fully and provide the necessary config files?
Which tftp server are you running?

> If I then start the menu from the boot prompt all behaves like it
> should.

Does that mean that the menu displays the entries from your config file?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center