Syslinux - Mar 2014 - Syslinux EFI + TFTPBOOT Support

On 2014?03?08? 20:57, Gene Cumm wrote:
> Please try 6.03-pre6.  I see a regression on 6.03-pre7 with EFI64 netboot
>
>> > Another thing you I'd like to mentioned is, after bootx64.efi
was
>> > downloaded, the next download for ldlinux.e64 was about 15 secs
later.
>> > Is that normal?
> When it's successful for me, it takes 0.2s from the beginning of
> fetching syslinux.efi to when it has all of the config.
>
Hi Gene,
Thanks. As you suggested, I did a test about 6.03-pre6, and I still got
the same issue. My client machine
still only shows:
===================Getting cached packets
My IP is 192.168.120.1
===================The syslog log shows:
===================Mar  8 21:25:06 drbldbn dhcpd: Client 0:c:29:6e:ac:93
requests
1:2:3:4:5:6:c:d:f:11:12:16:17:1c:28:29:2a:2b:32:33:36:3a:3b:3c:42:43:61:80:81:82:83:84:85:86:87
- PXEClient:Arch:00007:UNDI:003000 - no dhcp-client-id
Mar  8 21:25:06 drbldbn dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:6e:ac:93 via
vmnet1
Mar  8 21:25:07 drbldbn dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.120.1 to
00:0c:29:6e:ac:93 via vmnet1
Mar  8 21:25:08 drbldbn dhcpd: Client 0:c:29:6e:ac:93 requests
1:2:3:4:5:6:c:d:f:11:12:16:17:1c:28:29:2a:2b:32:33:36:3a:3b:3c:42:43:61:80:81:82:83:84:85:86:87
- PXEClient:Arch:00007:UNDI:003000 - no dhcp-client-id
Mar  8 21:25:08 drbldbn dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.120.1
(192.168.120.254) from 00:0c:29:6e:ac:93 via vmnet1
Mar  8 21:25:08 drbldbn dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.120.1 to
00:0c:29:6e:ac:93 via vmnet1
Mar  8 21:25:08 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: Serving bootx64.efi to
192.168.120.1:1538
Mar  8 21:25:08 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: Serving bootx64.efi to
192.168.120.1:1539
Mar  8 21:25:23 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: Serving ldlinux.e64 to
192.168.120.1:1540
Mar  8 21:25:28 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: timeout: retrying...
Mar  8 21:25:33 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: timeout: retrying...
Mar  8 21:25:38 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: timeout: retrying...
Mar  8 21:25:43 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: timeout: retrying...
Mar  8 21:25:48 drbldbn atftpd[10339]: timeout: retrying...
===================As you can see, it still took 15 secs to start the 2nd
download
(ldlinux.e64).

I also did some tests about 6.03-pre[2-5], all got the same issue.
Anything else I could test or provide to help to fix this issue?
Thank you very much.

Steven.

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On Mar 8, 2014 8:36 AM, "Steven Shiau" <steven at nchc.org.tw>
wrote:
>
>
> On 2014?03?08? 20:57, Gene Cumm wrote:
> > Please try 6.03-pre6.  I see a regression on 6.03-pre7 with EFI64
netboot
> >
> >> > Another thing you I'd like to mentioned is, after
bootx64.efi was
> >> > downloaded, the next download for ldlinux.e64 was about 15
secs
later.
> >> > Is that normal?
> > When it's successful for me, it takes 0.2s from the beginning of
> > fetching syslinux.efi to when it has all of the config.
> >
> Hi Gene,
> Thanks. As you suggested, I did a test about 6.03-pre6, and I still got
> the same issue. My client machine
> still only shows:
> ===================> Getting cached packets
> My IP is 192.168.120.1
> ===================> The syslog log shows:
> ===================> Mar  8 21:25:06 drbldbn dhcpd: Client
0:c:29:6e:ac:93 requests
Which vNIC?

--Gene

On 03/08/2014 10:06 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> Hi Gene,
>> > Thanks. As you suggested, I did a test about 6.03-pre6, and I
still got
>> > the same issue. My client machine
>> > still only shows:
>> > ===================>> > Getting cached packets
>> > My IP is 192.168.120.1
>> > ===================>> > The syslog log shows:
>> > ===================>> > Mar  8 21:25:06 drbldbn dhcpd:
Client 0:c:29:6e:ac:93 requests
> Which vNIC?
> 
> --Gene
Hi Gene,
My VMWare WS 10 is running on debian wheezy. The client machine connects
to host machine via vmnet1. I have dhcpd service on debian wheezy:
root      8433     1  0 21:19 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dhcpd -q -cf
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf -pf /var/run/dhcpd.pid eth1 vmnet1
Thanks.

Steven.

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