[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


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