[syslinux] Problems using pxechn.c32

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/20/2014 07:34 AM, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote:
> Hi, I have more than one pxe server in my network and I need to chain from
> one to the other. I used to do that with pxechain.com from old versions of
> syslinux. With the new version (6.02) I'm trying to achieve this with
> pxechn.c32. I copied the files ldlinux.c32, libcom32.c32, libutil.c32,
> pxechn.c32, pxelinux.0 and vesamenu.c32 to the tftp's root in both servers
> and add this in the menu:
> 
> LABEL server2
> MENU LABEL server2
> kernel pxechn.c32
> append ip_of_server2::pxelinux.0
> 
> But when I access this entry in menu I got stuck in this screen:
> 
> pxechn.c32: Attempting to load 'ip_of_server2::pxelinux.0': loaded.
> ...Ready to boot:
>    Attempting to boot...
> Booting...
> 
> PXELINUX 6.02 PXE 2013-10-13  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter Anvin et al
> 
> I have a WDS server too and the chaining process works well from this same
> pxe server with this entry in the menu:
> LABEL WDSServer
> MENU LABEL WDSserver
> kernel pxechn.c32
> append ip_of_wds_server::\Boot\x64\wdsnbp.com -w
> 
> I'm I missing something?

pxechn.c32 is broken in 6.02... I have checked in a fix but haven't been
able to build a new prerelease yet.  It will be in 6.03-pre2.

	-hpa