[syslinux] DELL E6510 pxelinux issues

Ady ady-sf at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 1 10:22:25 PDT 2014


> Hello,
> 
> On 24.07.2014 17:32, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Philipp Hahn <hahn at univention.de> wrote:
> >> On 24.07.2014 13:52, Gene Cumm wrote:
> >>> As expected.  You have a different OUI (the first 3 octets of the MAC
> >>> address).  Try everything from 6.03-pre18 and then lpxelinux.0 from
> >>> here: http://www.zytor.com/~genec/lpxelinux-6.03p18g4.tgz
> >>
> >> Your special build gets the gateway working, but the downloaded InitRD
> >> still gets corrupted sometimes. Boot-time is down from 16m to ~2m.
> ...
> > What exact URLs did you use in your config?  If you don't specify
> > HTTP, it won't use HTTP.
> > 
> > Like this:
> > 
> >   LABEL linux-http
> >     LINUX http://boot-server/boot/vmlinuz
> >     APPEND initrd=http://boot-server/boot/initrd
> 
> That worked: Booting was reasonable fast and no corruption thanks to TCP
> checksums. Thank you for your help!
> 
> Sincerely
> Philipp
> 
 
Syslinux 6.03-pre19 is out. Since several prior versions were tested 
in this same hardware with different results, it could be very useful 
to repeat the tests with 6.03-pre19 too, which includes some patches 
for (l)pxelinux.

Feedback is appreciated.

TIA,
Ady.


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