[syslinux] DELL E6510 pxelinux issues

[Philipp Hahn]

Hello,

On 24.07.2014 17:32, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Philipp Hahn <hahn at univention.de> wrote:
>> On 24.07.2014 13:52, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>> As expected.  You have a different OUI (the first 3 octets of the MAC
>>> address).  Try everything from 6.03-pre18 and then lpxelinux.0 from
>>> here: http://www.zytor.com/~genec/lpxelinux-6.03p18g4.tgz
>>
>> Your special build gets the gateway working, but the downloaded InitRD
>> still gets corrupted sometimes. Boot-time is down from 16m to ~2m.
...
> What exact URLs did you use in your config?  If you don't specify
> HTTP, it won't use HTTP.
> 
> Like this:
> 
>   LABEL linux-http
>     LINUX http://boot-server/boot/vmlinuz
>     APPEND initrd=http://boot-server/boot/initrd

That worked: Booting was reasonable fast and no corruption thanks to TCP
checksums. Thank you for your help!

Sincerely
Philipp

PS: It would help if that simple example would be added to
<http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX#Fetching_images_via_HTTP.2FFTP>,
just to make one working example findable.