[syslinux] lpxelinux hangs under Intel Boot Agent 1.3.81 (2.1 build 089) on Dell Optiplex 990 BIOS A16

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jul 11 14:31:19 PDT 2014


On 07/11/2014 10:17 AM, Alexander Perlis wrote:
> 
> Trace shows that lpxelinux.0 6.03-pre18 is transferred, and after that
> there is only ARP traffic: a "gratuitous" ARP announcement by the
> client, and then a string of ARP requests and replies in which the
> client is asking for the MAC of the PXE server, about every 3 seconds,
> for about 2 minutes, after which I see a message on the client that the
> boot failed and to press a key to try again. (So I previously
> misreported: it's not a total hang...)
> 

So it is sending packets but not getting the response.

	-hpa



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