[syslinux] syslinux6 EFI fail to boot via pxe

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Thu Jun 27 12:42:28 PDT 2013


On Thu, 27 Jun, at 08:16:35PM, Michael Szerencsits wrote:
> Am 27. Juni 2013 17:44:58 schrieb Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org>:
> >OK, now that's just weird. You don't see any response whatsoever from
> >tapping at the keys?
> 
> That's correct. Nothing happen.
 
Bad :-/

> >If you set a TIMEOUT, can you run a DEFAULT even though you cannot type?
> >That's one way to figure out whether the machine is dead at that point
> >or not. A useful DEFAULT might be reboot.c32, that way even if the bug
> >is in the display code, you'll still notice your machine rebooting.
> 
> Few seconds after the error "TFTP unknown protocol" is shown, the
> system reboot.
> That's without the TIMEOUT and DEFAULT set.
> But I think it's dead. I would test this tomorrow.
 
Oh, I forgot that you were seeing that error message. Does it always
print the same bogus opcode? I'm wondering where in the stack your
packets are being corrupted.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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