[syslinux] DELL E6510 pxelinux issues

[Philipp Hahn]

Hello Ady,

On 23.07.2014 16:21, Ady wrote:
> FWIW, you have not mentioned specifically updating to BIOS version 
> A11 before trying A15.

I started with A05, updated to A10, then A11 and now A15.

>  <http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=60M0Y&fileId=3379268220&osCode=BIOSA&productCode=latitude-e6510&languageCode=EN&categoryId=BI>
...
> So P02, A09, and A11 seem to be EACH a MUST.

As the notebook started with A05, P02 should be irrelevant.


> Regarding the speed, is there any difference between pxelinux.0 and 
> lpxelinux.0?

I tried lpxelinux.0, but it fails to resolve the gateway address via ARP:
> 17:25:51.399119 ARP, Request who-has 10.200.17.1 tell 10.200.17.212, length 46
> 17:25:51.399436 ARP, Reply 10.200.17.1 is-at 00:15:17:f2:f8:b2, length 46

This is repeated until lpxelinux.0 times out.
I'll have another look tomorrow.

> Just in case... Are you also updating the corresponding c32 files to 
> the matching version of the bootloader (specially ldlinux.c32)?

Yes, I'm updateing all files in sync by using a "syslinux" symlink
pointing to the currently selected version:

syslinux -> syslinux-6.03-pre18/bios
ldlinux.c32 -> syslinux/com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32
pxelinux.0 -> syslinux/core/pxelinux.0

Philipp