[syslinux] PXE Error Reporting
Sebastian Herbszt
herbszt at gmx.de
Wed Jan 14 15:49:18 PST 2015
Hello Andreas,
Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently ran into a problem trying to boot over TFTP using
> pxelinux.0. On the console, I got the following message:
>
> Could not find ramdisk image: initramfs-3.10.0-123.13.2el7.x86_64
>
> It took me a while to figure out that the file *could* be found but that
> the file permissions were set wrong and the file couldn't be read. At
> the protocol level (tcpdump), the server reply was looking as follows:
>
> 0000 00 05 00 00 50 65 72 6d 69 73 73 69 6f 6e 20 64 ....Permission d
> 0010 65 6e 69 65 64 00 enied.
>
> Likewise, when the kernel image can't be accessed, I get "Could not find
> kernel image: vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64". So errors are
> apparently not reported very well.
>
> Could this please be improved?
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
which version of pxelinux were you trying? Looks like < 5.x.
Sebastian
More information about the Syslinux
mailing list