[syslinux] syslinux PXE boot version upgrade, network no longer working

[David McDowell]

Thanks Ady.  I have to stick with stable vs. experimental but I
appreciate the Debian suggestion.

I don't mean to troll anyone, but... how is 6.03 considered stable if
it does not correctly support keeppxe?  I have to go all the way back
to 4.xx for this to be supported?  Wow.  I still couldn't find it in
the docs online where it states keeppxe doesn't work.  I have some
"detail oriented" management who wants "proof" why I have to run a
much older version of the PXE environment. *eye roll*

I'm in a catch 22 of sorts.  The older version I have from 2009 is so
old I don't see it under the OLD folder path under downloads.  That
version is starting to have trouble driving networking with some brand
new models of laptops, so I definitely have to upgrade.

Looks like 4.10 is where I need to go if I am sticking with SysLinux?

thank you,
David


On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Ady Ady via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
>> Right, by 2014 I meant 6.03. I didn’t notice in the docs this was a known issue. If keeppxe is a bug with 6.03, that’s likely my issue. Do I drop back to 6.02 or X? Which version?
>
>
> I would suggest trying Debian's "experimental" binaries (which include
> potentially-relevant patches for keeppxe), including all its "bios" lib*.c32
> files (beware not to mix with the efi files with same file names) and its
> linux.c32 (so as to replace the KERNEL directive, as follows):
>
> LABEL Ghost
> COM32 linux.c32
> APPEND memdisk keeppxe floppy rw initrd=bootimages/ghost.ima
>
> Even if you are not using Debian, the [experimental] binaries can be downloaded
> and used anyway.
>
> Please replace _all_ files with the corresponding version (including pxelinux.0
> + ldlinux.c32 + menu.c32 + linux.c32 + lib*.c32, all from the "bios" platform);
> do not mix versions.
>
> Prior to 6.03, the last version to correctly support keeppxe was version(s)
> 4.xx.
>
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