similar to: Is it possible to prompt for/pass input from console to PXElinux/sysllinux kernel?

Hello, I have a Soekris net4501, which I'm PXE booting using pxelinux. Everything seems to be working splendidly, except for the fact that I can't seem to make pxelinux understand use the net4501's serial console port correctly. The net4501 uses the serial console as its primary interface; I'm using a null modem cable and minicom to operate with it. At boot, its startup

A little more info: I was mistaken in saying that the garbage on the screen doesn't interfere with typed commands/stanzas; it does. If I can type the name of a stanza and hit enter quickly enough before the garbage is spat to the screen, it seems to start loading a kernel, but then it aborts. And the garbage appears to be varying quantities of '[0n', as in sometimes there will be one

I'm using pxelinux to boot vmware instances, running VMware-gsx-3.1.0-9089. When I enable the boot: prompt, the prompt is displayed but then keyboard input is not echoed promptly. By that, I mean that if you hit a few keys they wont be echoed until several minutes later. I think the problem relates to the check_for_arp function; if I comment the line in that that calls pxenv, then the

-----Original Message----- From: hpa at zytor.com [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2018 4:26 PM To: Scheie, Peter M Subject: RE: [syslinux] garbage on serial console after pxelinux.0 is loaded On April 4, 2018 2:08:12 PM PDT, "Scheie, Peter M" <Petre.Scheie at gd-ms.com> wrote: >-----Original Message----- >From: Syslinux [mailto:syslinux-bounces at

Question, testing the waters to see if anyone has input on this. My summary belief is that I'm seeing a problem with the PXE bios code causing this issue. I'm trying to find out what else I can do to confirm that, and rule out pxelinux/. I'd like to get a confirmation that the use of pxelinux isn't a factor, as I'm not using 'keeppxe'. I'm rolling out a

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com Thu Jun 3 00:09:30 PDT 2004 Previous message: [syslinux] gfxboot for PXElinux Next message: [syslinux] chainload cdrom Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] I've been thinking about the whole gfxmenu thing, and I'm rather interested in

----- Forwarded Message ---- From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 2:27:47 PM Subject: Re: [syslinux] I'd like to eventually support network console, at least in pxelinux. n schembr wrote: > > Hi, > > Would it be hard to add a network console to syslinux, extlinux

On Dec 25, 2014 2:11 AM, "Luke Ledgerd" <luke.ledgerd at niteco.se> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > We are going with WDS to fire up first to get the benefits of targeted M$ deployments. If you have the "handle unknown computers" off on your M$ Distribution point, then you can still use regular WDS which runs next as a PXE filter (DLL linked into WDS) to fire off

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Alexander Perlis <aperlis at math.lsu.edu> wrote: > When chainloading one pxelinux from another (e.g., chainloading from say > pxelinux 4.07 to pxelinux 6.02), can one pass parameters or somehow control > the root directory and/or server IP address? > > Here's the need: we have a loaded-up PXE server working great under 4.07, > and

Hey guys, We are going with WDS to fire up first to get the benefits of targeted M$ deployments. If you have the "handle unknown computers" off on your M$ Distribution point, then you can still use regular WDS which runs next as a PXE filter (DLL linked into WDS) to fire off anything you want to including PXELinux. The stuff I was talking about before with PXELinux not working in

Spike White, Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 4:32 AM > > Luke, I have considerable experience with this. We use WDS at work > for PXE (MS-centric shop). I use pxelinux at home. > > I've got WDS working in our test lab w/ UEFI. As you state, it strongly > wishes to do proxyDHCP (port 4011). More on this in a bit. > > It's quite common to segregate the DHCP

When chainloading one pxelinux from another (e.g., chainloading from say pxelinux 4.07 to pxelinux 6.02), can one pass parameters or somehow control the root directory and/or server IP address? Here's the need: we have a loaded-up PXE server working great under 4.07, and I'm not prepared to just switch the entire setup to a newer version of pxelinux, too many folks depending on a

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alexander Perlis <aperlis at math.lsu.edu> wrote: > On 06/16/2014 10:41 AM, Gene Cumm wrote: >> >> [...] Initially I wrote pxechn.c32 to allow further >> modifications of the DHCP data [...] > > > Awesome! In fact, this might allow us to install an automatic 'http' prefix > on all subsequent requests, to avoid slow

Thanks for your email. Yes it does provide some insight into why I could hack a Linux DHCP server into providing enough PXE boot information for PXE 3 clients but PXE 2.1 were happy (ROMs under many circumstances need to use proxy dhcp 4011 - as documented by IBM on the link I shared earlier). It appears only the most latest Dell business systems have EFI 64 support, and the best you can expect

On 06/16/2014 05:14 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: > This sounds like you're using gpxelinux.0 4.07 which as I stated will > introduce issues. Instead of using gpxelinux.0 4.07, try pxelinux.0 > 4.07 then do your chainload to lpxelinux.0 6.02. If this doesn't > solve it, try 6.03-pre14. When I DHCP boot to lpxelinux.0 6.02, and then pxechn.c32 back to lpxelinux.0 6.02 with the http

On Friday 25 Mar 2011 21:21:18 Marcus Grando wrote: > >> Script is something like that: > >> > >> #!ipxe > >> ifopen net0 > >> set net0/ip 192.168.0.10 > >> set net0/netmask 255.255.255.0 > >> set net0/gateway 192.168.0.1 > >> set net0/dns 8.8.8.8 > >> set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default > >> set 210:string

Hi! We've been trying to use pxelinux to boot the Intel D815EGEW board (a sub ATX board). I've discovered what appears to be a bug in pxelinux. pxelinux versions up to 1.67 work fine, but pxelinux 1.70 and 1.71 don't. When it fails it shows this on the screen Intel Base-Code, PXE-2.1 (build 083) [loading kernel etc] Loading ready. Failed to free base memory, sorry...

On 06/16/2014 02:57 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote: > > > On 06/16/2014 10:41 AM, Gene Cumm wrote: >> [...] Initially I wrote pxechn.c32 to allow further >> modifications of the DHCP data [...] > > Awesome! In fact, this might allow us to install an automatic 'http' > prefix on all subsequent requests, to avoid slow tftp --- or is that a > bad idea, and/or

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: >Ciprian Paunescu wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am working on a cluster of PCs, and I want to >> boot them from an SGI IRIX machine. >> The PCs use Supermicro XEON MB, with dual GigE built in. >> They have Intel Boot Agent GE v 1.1.09 and PXE 2.1 (083). >> >> I have DHCP and TFTP on the IRIX

We have some x86_64 systems that have DisplayPort and USB ports for a monitor & keyboard and when I use these to PXE boot, everything works fine. However, these systems will eventually become headless and in the production process access to the console will be via serial port. Using the serial port mostly works in that once we get to the PXE boot: prompt we can type in the name of the