[syslinux] pxechn.c32 halting

[Erwan Velu]

That's surely the bug I reported :
http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=f775e740a3a817a4ff5ba26bea99dbfd735456b3

Testing on recent master should works better


2013-09-18 22:09 GMT+02:00 Chris Valentino <chris.valentino at 1010data.com>:

> 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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