Sorry, I originally send this message to H. Peter only...
-----Original Message-----
Hi!
Strangely enough, I have again the same Fujitsu-Siemens machine which
(still)
has the same darn PXE bug.
This time I have tested it with Pxelinux 2.02 .
Just to suite it to my specific needs, I have recompiled it, changed only
this line: (2036)
;cfgprefix db 'pxelinux.cfg/' ; No final null!
cfgprefix db '/' ; No final null!
And still it hangs after having downloaded the memdisk image :(
This is the full text I get on screen:
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BootManage UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
BootManage PXE-2.0 PROM 1.0. AN983 3.80, SDK 3.0/083 (OEM73) Copyright (C)
1989,2002 bootix Technology GmbH, D-41466 Neuss. PXE Software Copyright (C)
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Intel Corporation. Licensed to FSC GmbH
CLIENT MAC ADDR: xx xx xx xx xx xx GUID: xxx.... (does not matter) CLIENT
IP: 172.26.22.41 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP 172.26.22.5 GATEWAY IP:
172.26.22.1
PXELINUX 2.03 t Copyright (C) 1994-2002 H. Peter Anvin
UNDI data segment at: 0009B020
UNDI data segment size: 3090
UNDI code segment at: 0009E0B0
UNDI code segment size: 14E0
PXE entrypoint found (we hope) at 9E0B:0106
My IP address seems to be AC1A1629 172.26.22.41
ip=172.26.22.41:172.26.22.5:172.26.22.1:255.255.255.0
TFTP prefix:
Trying to load: /AC1A1629
[bla bla bla]
Trying to load: /default
Loading memdisk....
Loading client.ima..........
Ready.
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At this point the machine simply freezes, not even CTRL-ALT-DEL works!
Here is my 'default' file:
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default linux
label linux
kernel memdisk
append initrd=client.ima
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I hope that with this somewhat full report, some light will shine on my
problem :)
-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 12:18 PM
To: Luis.F.Correia
Cc: 'Syslinux'
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE booting
Luis.F.Correia wrote:> Ok, i've tried it.
>
> The result is exactly the same... it just hangs there.
>
> I guess it IS a bad bios implementation.
>
> I am now going to try and find out if there is a bios update for this
> machine. It is strange though, it's a brand-new PC...
> (designed for windoze px...)
>
Not strange at all. BIOS quality has been going down, down, DOWN since
the BIOS is increasingly looked at as just a bootstrap for Windoze. If
it boots the latest version of 'doze at the time the machine ships, it's
"good".
Something else you could try is pxelinux.0 from either 2.00-pre14 (some
people have had success with -pre14 when it doesn't work with 2.00) or
with 1.76.
Also, some people have reported, in particular, problems with booting a
floppy image on a machine with no floppy disk or a hard disk image on a
machine with no harddisk.
It's still odd; you should be getting *some* output from MEMDISK itself...
-hpa