[syslinux] HP Probook 6570b - Unable to locate configuration file

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 13:47:52 PST 2013


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Joel Dahl <joel at vnode.se> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We currently use pxelinux and tftp-hpa for pxe booting new machines and
> installing our OS of choice. This has worked great for the past year, and
> just about every HP laptop we've tried so far has worked flawlessy, until
> now...…
>
> We recently bought a bunch of HP ProBook 6570b laptops but couldn't get them
> to work with our pxelinux setup. What we see is that the 6570b stops at
> the "Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/XXXXXXX" phase. We have a large amount of
> different HP laptop models, and we've never seen these problems before. The
> 6560b (which seems to be almost identical, at least physically) works great,
> for example.
>
> Output from a non-working 6570b:
>
> gPXE initialising devices…
> gPXE 1.0.0 -- Open Source Boot Firmware -- http://etherboot.org
> Features: AoE HTTPS iSCSI FTP HTTP DNS TFTP COMBOOT ELF MultiBoot PXE bzImage PXEXT
> DHCP (net0 10:60:4b:4a:93:ee) using cached
>
> PXELINUX 4.06 2012-10-23 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H. Peter Anvin et al
> !PXE entry point found (we hope) at 845A:03B2 via plan A
> UNDI code segment at 845A len 0814
> UNDI data segment at 84DC len 2E40
> Getting cached packet  01 02 03
> My IP address seems to be 0A651889 10.101.24.137
> ip=10.101.24.137:10.101.24.20:10.101.24.1:255.255.255.0
> BOOTIF=01-10-60-4b-4a-93-ee
> SYSUUID=977d2b5e-911c-e211-80b4-08c97201c0c8

> Boot failed: press a key to retry, or wait for reset...

> Any ideas? What could cause this behavior with this particular laptop model? :-)

Any chance you could try the precompiled pxelinux.0 in the
binary/source archive of 4.06?  It sends all of the request but sounds
like it goes deaf.

-- 
-Gene



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