[syslinux] memdisk and iso

[upen]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, upen <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Jun 5, 2013 6:13 PM, "upen" <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Thanks hpa. It looks like it's not able to find lpxelinux.0 files
> which
> >> > actually resides under /tftpboot/linux-install directory where the
> >> > pxelinux.0 existed before.
> >> >
> >> > ls -al /tftpboot/linux-install/lpxelinux.0
> >> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81240 Jun  5 15:15
> >> > /tftpboot/linux-install/lpxelinux.0
> >> >
> >> > Also, at
> >> >  ls -al /usr/share/syslinux/lpxelinux.0
> >> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81240 Jun  5 14:57
> >> > /usr/share/syslinux/lpxelinux.0
> >>
> >> Where was pxelinux.0?  Did you try renaming lpxelinux.0 to replace
> >> pxelinux.0 or changing your dhcpd?
> >>
> >> --Gene
> >
> >
> > Before: This works
> > filename "linux-install/pxelinux.0"; <--dhcpd.conf
> > Location: /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.0
> > Confiugration: /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default
> >
> > After: This throws the errors I sent before about file not found.
> > filename "linux-install/lpxelinux.0"; <--dhcpd.conf. <If I change this to
> > pxelinux.0, i get the pxe boot menu>
> > Location: /tftpboot/linux-install/lpxelinux.0
> > Confiugration: /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/default
> >
> > pxelinux.0 and lpxelinux.0, both are from syslinux-5.10
>
> Precompiled from kernel.org, your distro or did you happen to run make
> at all?  If you ran make, please be precise on what you executed.
>

wget
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-5.10.tar.gz
tar xvzf syslinux-5.10.tar.gz
cd syslinux-5.10
make installer
make install


>
> --
> -Gene
>



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