[syslinux] PXELINUX problems with 6.03-pre12

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/28/2014 01:02 AM, Shantanu Gadgil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using 6.03-pre11 lpxelinux.0 to deliver standard (TFTP) and HTTP based vmlinuz and kernel images.
> Things are working fine.
> 
> When I upgraded the same to 6.03-pre12 it stopped working.
> 
> On the console of the machine that is booting, is stalls infinitely at the line:
> 
> PXELINUX 6.03 lwIP 6.03-pre12 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
> 
> Screen shot attached.
> 
> FWIW:
> 1. the booting client is a DELL PowerEdge 2950.
> 2. The modules that I use along with lpxelinux.0 are: (dunno if that matters)
> chain.c32 gpxelinux.0 ldlinux.c32 libcom32.c32 libgpl.c32 libutil.c32 lpxelinux.0 mboot.c32 menu.c32 poweroff.c32 pxechn.c32 pxelinux.0 reboot.c32 rosh.c32 vesamenu.c32
> 
> *** Apologies in advance as I cannot disrupt the setup immediately to run a packet capture.
> 
> Regards,
> Shantanu
> 

Oh fun... especially since there are no changes that should affect PXE
between -pre11 and -pre12...

Do you have the ability to rebuild Syslinux from git?  If so, could you
revert checkin 7e7139788c8ac6ffbf474976ad4d1727e0677b9f and see if that
solves the problem for you?

	-hpa