Sorry to bring this old thread up. I saw the note on the release of syslinux-5.10 which I have just finished installing. I would like some help here with configuration. I can move the iso into webserver's root directory but what should the configuration below be changed to load the iso via http? LABEL dell MENU LABEL dell LINUX memdisk INITRD dell.iso APPEND iso I have the lpxelinux.0 in the tftp root directory as well. Thanks! On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:> On 05/15/2013 02:42 PM, upen wrote: > > OK. That gives me some confidence. I will give another ISO a try. May be > > the Dell iso I am using right now doesn't blend well over this type of > > environment. I might have hit some other problem and transfer might > > actually have stopped when I was running dstat and it was just the basic > > transfer that got captured. Let me see if I get better speeds with a > > another bootable iso. > > > > No, that wouldn't be the issue. You have an issue with your client PXE > stack, your server, or your network. > > TFTP performance suffers dramatically if you have high latency or if you > have packet loss. > > -hpa > > >-- upen, emerge -uD life (Upgrade Life with dependencies)
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, upen <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote:> Sorry to bring this old thread up. I saw the note on the release of > syslinux-5.10 which I have just finished installing. I would like some help > here with configuration. I can move the iso into webserver's root directory > but what should the configuration below be changed to load the iso via http? > > LABEL dell > MENU LABEL dell > LINUX memdisk > INITRD dell.iso > APPEND iso > > I have the lpxelinux.0 in the tftp root directory as well.1) change to useing lpxelinux.0 rather than pxelinux.0 2) change the INITRD line like: INITRD http://host.to.use.local/path/to/dell.iso -- -Gene A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text, especially the archives of mailing lists. Q: Why is Top-posting such a bad thing? "No one ever says, 'I can't read that ASCII(plain text) e-mail you sent me.'"
On 06/05/2013 02:34 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, upen <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry to bring this old thread up. I saw the note on the release of >> syslinux-5.10 which I have just finished installing. I would like some help >> here with configuration. I can move the iso into webserver's root directory >> but what should the configuration below be changed to load the iso via http? >> >> LABEL dell >> MENU LABEL dell >> LINUX memdisk >> INITRD dell.iso >> APPEND iso >> >> I have the lpxelinux.0 in the tftp root directory as well. > > 1) change to useing lpxelinux.0 rather than pxelinux.0 > > 2) change the INITRD line like: > INITRD http://host.to.use.local/path/to/dell.iso >I think he wants to use http for the configuration file as well, in which case you have to set the path prefix via DHCP option 210. We may want to find some way to make that more convenient, but I'm not really sure how to do that cleanly (other than using the pxelinux-options tool, of course.) -hpa