[syslinux] Problem with 90MB Initrd

[Mathias Radtke]

On 21.09.2015 13:32, Patrick Masotta wrote:
>   > What do you observe?  Does it transfer the file then the Linux kernel
>   > crashes?  Does it spontaneously reboot before completing the
>   > operation?
>   The client is a VSphere VM Client. It displayes the IP Address and
>   then:
>   Loading Kernel..... ok
>   Loading initrd.bz2...
>   
>   This stalls for minutes and the client reboots afterwards.
> <<<
>
> I have seen this before; Are you using VMware 12 ?
> try changing the virtual driver.
> I have reported a bug on certain VMware drivers that
> mistakenly set TFTP blocksize to 1486 instead of 1468,
> That leads to IP fragmentation and high chances of an aborted
> TFTP transfer if the file is big. See here:
> https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536960
> A Wireshark traffic capture will confirm if you are suffering
> this VMware bug
>
> VMware is lately having some issues with TFTP transfers,
> This is another reported bug that produces extremely
> low speed TFTP transfers under EFI; this could also lead
> to aborted transfers if the file is big.
> https://communities.vmware.com/message/2536774
>
> Best,
> Patrick
>
Server is VMWare ESXi 5.5

Cheers

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Mathias Radtke, uib

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