[syslinux] Syslinux 5.11-pre7 not working

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Shantanu Gadgil
<shantanugadgil at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a happy user of version 4.06 and have been hoping to upgrade the 5.x series (for the HTTP bits).
> I have the following problems with the 5.11-pre7 build:
>
> 1. TFTP load is horribly slow ... even when the two REAL machines are connected to the same switch.
> For a typical RHEL installation, the vmlinuz loads ... the initrd.img loads very very slowly and just times out (I waited over 10 mins)

I presume lpxelinux.0 and not pxelinux.0?  Have you tried pxelinux.0
for TFTP just in case?

> A minor issue: The TFTP doesn't clear screen before the "kernel" start loading so the text appears on top of the splash (at the bottom if the screen) ... :(

How are you using a splash?  DISPLAY directive, vesamenu.c32 MENU BACKGROUND?

> The above two are NOT seen on the 4.06 branch.
>
> 2. HTTP loading just doesn't work! :( :(
> I have tried these with the 4.10, 5.10, 5.11 branches, no luck!

Any particular versions?

> As of today I have noticed an error message:.
> --- msg ---
> Loading http://A.B.C.D/os/rhel/6.4/x86_64/disc1/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz... netconn_write error -5
> failed: no such file or directory
> --- msg ---
>
> Ofcouse I can wget/firefox this file fine! :) :)
>
>
> The corresponding entry in my 'default' file is:
> --- snip ---
> label   rhel-6.4-x86_64-http
> menu label RHEL 6.4 (x86_64) HTTP (Experimental; DO NOT USE)
> kernel http://A.B.C.D/os/rhel/6.4/x86_64/disc1/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> initrd http://A.B.C.D/os/rhel/6.4/x86_64/disc1/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> append lang=en_US keymap=us ip=dhcp noipv6 method=http://A.B.C.D/os/rhel/6.4/x86_64/disc1 vga=785
> --- snip ---
>
> If the following helps:
> Server (OptiPlex 755) lspci:
> # lspci  | grep -i network
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
>
> Client (OptiPlex 960) lspci:
> # lspci | grep -i network
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

BIOS rev on the 960?

--
-Gene