[syslinux] Problem with 90MB Initrd

[Mathias Radtke]

Hi,
I am currently trying to replace our companies elilo UEFI PXE boot with 
syslinux.
I compiled all the needed files and the DHCP distributes them fine to 
the requesting client.

However when I try to boot our companies miniroot the DHCP serves the 
file, but it seems like it never finishes.
The image is generated with the following command:
find . | grep -v 'name'.bz2 | cpio -o -H newc | bzip2 > 'name'.bz2
The image has a size of 90MB.
The kernel loads fine, and when I try to boot it without an initrd it 
panics (obious).

I tried to use another kernel and also an ubuntu install CD initrd and 
it then booted fine.

Is there anything else I can do to make our miniroot booting?

Here's the pxelinux.cfg/default config:

default:
   DEFAULT install-64bit
   LABEL install-64bit
   KERNEL install-x64
   INITRD miniroot-x64.bz2
   APPEND quiet

relevant dhcpd.conf lines:

subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
         group {
                 next-server 192.168.9.1;
                 filename "linux/pxelinux.0";
                 option routers 192.168.1.254;
                 option netbios-name-servers 192.168.1.14;
                 filename "linux/pxelinux.0";
                 if substring (option vendor-class-identifier , 19,1 ) = 
"0" {
                         log (info, "pxe client");                       
filename "linux/pxelinux.0";
                 }
                 else if substring (option vendor-class-identifier , 
19,1 ) = "6" {
                         log (info, "efi32 client");                     
filename "linux/syslinux32.efi";
                 }
                 else if substring (option vendor-class-identifier , 
19,1 ) = "7" {
                         log (info, "efi64 client");                     
filename "linux/syslinux64.efi";
                 }
                 else {
                         log (info, concat ( "Unhandled vendor class 
Arch: ", substring (option vendor-class-identifier , 19,1 )));
                 }

-- 
Mathias Radtke, uib

mail m.radtke at uib.de