[syslinux] Syslinux 5.11-pre7 not working
Gene Cumm
gene.cumm at gmail.com
Sun Oct 20 10:28:41 PDT 2013
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)
> 2. HTTP loading just doesn't work! :( :(
> I have tried these with the 4.10, 5.10, 5.11 branches, no luck!
>
> 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 ---
> Client (OptiPlex 960) lspci:
> # lspci | grep -i network
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
Shantanu, could you please try v6.02? Your scenario failed on my
OptiPlex 760 but with 6.02, it works.
See also http://bugzilla.syslinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19
--
-Gene
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