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2019 Jun 19
2
lpxelinux.0 issues with larger initrd.img files from RHEL >= 7.5 on UCS servers?
...ug in their PXE/BIOS stack somewhere?
Just some random and humble thoughts...
Perhaps it would be worth some additional tests?
Maybe a test with pxelinux.0 version 4.07? And using "LINUX", not
"KERNEL":
###
DEFAULT biginitrd
PROMPT 0
LABEL biginitrd
LINUX mykernel
INITRD mybiginitrd
APPEND myoptions
###
Maybe a packet capture might reveal something about the network setup?
Maybe it is not the size of the initrd file but rather a time
limitation (which gets triggered by a big-enough file)?
What about trying with 6.04-pre1, and/or (even better) with Debian
Sid's package...
2019 Jun 20
0
lpxelinux.0 issues with larger initrd.img files from RHEL >= 7.5 on UCS servers?
...nd humble thoughts...
>
> Perhaps it would be worth some additional tests?
>
> Maybe a test with pxelinux.0 version 4.07? And using "LINUX", not
> "KERNEL":
>
> ###
> DEFAULT biginitrd
> PROMPT 0
> LABEL biginitrd
> LINUX mykernel
> INITRD mybiginitrd
> APPEND myoptions
> ###
I will try that.
> Maybe a packet capture might reveal something about the network setup?
>
> Maybe it is not the size of the initrd file but rather a time
> limitation (which gets triggered by a big-enough file)?
If it's a timing difference it...
2019 Jun 19
2
lpxelinux.0 issues with larger initrd.img files from RHEL >= 7.5 on UCS servers?
On June 19, 2019 12:21:05 PM PDT, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <m+syslinux at thi.eu.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 05:31:17PM -0700, hpa at zytor.com wrote:
>> Which servers, what threshold, what clients, what about pxelinux.0?
>
>All affected servers so far are Cisco UCS B200 M3 blade servers.
>
>The threshold seems to be around 50MB, I haven't
2019 Jun 25
0
lpxelinux.0 issues with larger initrd.img files from RHEL >= 7.5 on UCS servers?
...g.c32
> > APPEND -e pxe_call,malloc
> > # Additional functions for debug might be of interest.
> >
> >
> > # After debug.c32 returns to the boot prompt,
> > # press "1" and "Enter".
> > LABEL 1
> > LINUX mykernel
> > INITRD mybiginitrd
> > APPEND myoptions
> > ###
> >
> >
> > Once the label named "1" is launched, is there any info (that could
> > help)?
> >
> > Please avoid using boot menus for these tests; use the boot prompt.
>
> I'll give that a shot as w...