[syslinux] Problems using pxechn.c32

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes
<rodrigoantunes at pelotas.ifsul.edu.br> 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?

No, that appears to be a bug in 6.02 and 6.03-pre1 that might have been solved.

-- 
-Gene