[syslinux] pxechn.c32 halting

[Chris Valentino]

I upgraded from syslinux 4.x to syslinux 6.01 and am now having issues with
 pxe chaining. I've tried moving up as far as 6.02-pre16, but I'm still experiencing the same problem. The original config called the next server as follows:

LABEL Cobbler
KERNEL pxechain.com
                APPEND 10.x.x.x::pxelinux.0

Which worked for the previous version, but I started getting an error after
 the upgrade:

                Loading pxechain.com. . . ok
                Booting kernel failed: Invalid argument


I did some initial research and found that I should be using pxechn.c32 instead with newer versions of syslinux. I've modified the pxe boot config file
 to this:

LABEL Cobbler
                COM32 pxechn.c32
                APPEND 10.x.x.x::pxelinux.0

But now it seems that the chain starts, downloads pxelinux.0, but then halts either before or while switching over to the new server:
pxechn.c32: Attempting to load '10.x.x.x::pxelinux.0': loaded.

. . . Ready to boot:
   Attempting to boot . . .
Booting . . .

PXELINUX 6.02 6.02-pre16   Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al

And the screen just hangs there forever.

I hope this message is going to the right place. If not, could somebody please point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Chris Valentino
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
1010data
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