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Hello ! I am completely new to syslinux. I followed this instruction manually: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pxe.html I am on debian and do not have syslinux installed, but using this debian box as a tftp server. I had to modify the instructions given by the installation above. I downloaded the 6.02 version and copied the files to the tftp root. I am using dnsmasq as a tftp

> > Here is a bit of an odd request... II'm in a large company with lots of > politics getting in the way of things. We were able to convince the main IT > team to let us take over a subnet and run our own DHCP server. This lets us > create a really nice PXE environment where we can build servers and ship > them out. However, now we are in need to rebuild servers already

Hi, I've been hacking this week-end on a Vortex86[0] based device (ebox 3300) and had quite a few trouble with pxelinux.0 on it. Actually, I narrowed the problem to the `pxenv' routine always returning 1. This lead to an infinite loop while trying to transfer the config file. I'm not sure what the problem is, but the FreeBSD PXE bootloader does work on the same hardware, with the same

The gPXE in the Syslinux tree is ridiculously old. We could either replace it with iPXE or just drop it, giving people a recipe for how to integrate with iPXE themselves. What do people think? -hpa

Hi, I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on an AMD 64-based machine using PXE (via DHCP and TFTP). I've managed to get the machine to load the kernel over the network and start booting, but instead of loading the root fs from initrd.img (that I appended as a config via pxelinux.cfg), it loads the pre-existing rootfs on my harddisk. At the top of dmesg is the message: "so old

Folks, I've just released the first prelease for the 5.10 series. The intention is to leave 5.02-pre3 where it is and move to 5.10-pre1. The only difference between 5.02-pre3 and 5.10-pre1 is the merge of the lwip branch (and a single commit to fixup the -DDEBUG=2 build), which warranted a bump in the version minor number. See the shortlog below for details of the differences between

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Alexandre Blanchette > <blanalex at gmail.com> wrote: > > In PXELinux 4.06 (the vanilla version, not gpxelinux.0), I'm trying to > use > > pxechn.c32 to call iPXE (undionly) with option 67 set to call an iPXE > > script. > > > > The

I was able to solve the problem with the following configuration: label custom1 MENU custom1 kernel pxechain.com append ::custom1/pxelinux.0 label custom2 MENU custom2 kernel pxechain.com append ::custom2/pxelinux.0 configdir1/pxelinux.cfg/default configdir2/pxelinux.cfg/default Then I dropped the custom pxelinux.0 files in their respective directories, confgdir1 and configdir2. On Tue, Nov

I got this figured out much faster than I thought I would. Thanks to all of your help, Peter, Mattias, Thomas and Helmut. And Thomas, that 8 partition live OS sounds right up my alley, and I will definitely check it out. The second partition is working well with `parted' and `fdisk', so I am quite pleased. Below is, again, "what I came up with". I tried to integrate each of your

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 04:15:56AM -0800, Patrick Masotta wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:47:54AM +0100, Luke Ledgerd wrote: > > I think I'd like to ask for a feature request to allow pxechn.c32 > > to work with EFI too and to have the ability for PXELinux to have a > > ROOT path variable (kind of like gpxelinux.0) that can either have > > HTTP or TFTP urls.

Question, Some Linux distributions I support show two approaches for pxe booting them. One uses memdisk to boot an ISO file. The other uses pxelinux to boot kernel and initrd a squashfs file. I'm unfamiliar with the impact to memory either approach has. Like, does using memdisk permanently squirrel away a chunk of memory for the ISO file that the OS will be unable to use? Is using initrd to

In PXELinux 4.06 (the vanilla version, not gpxelinux.0), I'm trying to use pxechn.c32 to call iPXE (undionly) with option 67 set to call an iPXE script. The relevant portion of my PXELinux config looks like this: LABEL MDT MENU LABEL ^B - MDT 2012 SP1 com32 pxechn.c32 APPEND undionly.kpxe -o 67.s=ipxe/mdt.ipxe However iPXE doesn't seem to get the option correctly, it goes into

Hi All, I've been trying to understand how to use pxechn.c32 to chain a local pxelinux menu item to a remote server which has it's own pxelinux hierarchy served via TFTP and HTTP. We have no control over DHCP next-server and filename fields so I wanted to exploit the "prefix" -p option that pxechn.c32 accepts. I spent a long time hitting my head against a brick wall until I

Hi Bootmeisters, I am using gpxelinux.0 + sanboot.c32 to boot a diskless machine into Linux. I would like to use device-mapper-multipath to provide fault tolerant access to its root disk. Although I am able to do this by hardcoding the additional paths in the initrd, it would be better if the bootloader could pass the information in the iBFT (iSCSI Boot Firmware Table). However, at the

Just a few bug-reports, before I forget: - A Windows installer bug for 4.06 and presumably 5.00-pre9 whereby the ADV contains backslashes. Reproduced with: syslinux.exe --directory \two\dirs e: - An open() (?) bug for 4.06 and presumably 5.00-pre9 whereby the filename /ubcd/custom/syslinux-5.00-pre9/com32/gplinclude/acpi/facs.h fails to open() after 134 iterations in a loop where it's

Hey Folks, Sorry if this has been asked before; hard to get a usable search on 'isolinux OR syslinux pxe-boot' with just the info I need! I work in a large organization, and the group which manages the network may not be the guys managing the hosts. I have a network and dhcp server, and pxelinux is working very well on that net. I want to make my net-install resources available to

On 07/03/2014 08:44 PM, Gene Cumm wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote: > >> I suppose we could try making an ISOLINUX CD for the local boot, which then >> uses pxechn.c32 to connect to our PXE server? > > pxechn.c32 requires a functional PXELINUX. If I understand the issue correctly, is it that pxelinux.0 does not have a network stack and

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Wissam Shoukair <wissams at mellanox.com> wrote: > Hi Gene, > > Is there a way to compile pxelinux.0 to work with interrupts ? > > I need to check my driver (based on iPXE) which works in interrupt mode (and > not polling) > > > > Thanks for your help. > > Wissam What version? pxelinux.0 or lpxelinux.0? I've never

Hi Gene, Thanks for the quick response. Im using pxelinux4.07. pxelinux.0 I didn?t find any lpxelinux.0 in this version I will try lpxelinux.0 from Syslinux6.03-pre20. Is there lpxelinux.0 in versions earlier than Syslinux5.10? -----Original Message----- From: Gene Cumm [mailto:gene.cumm at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 29 September, 2014 18:40 To: Wissam Shoukair; For discussion of Syslinux and

Hi, I am trying to track down a ISOLINUX boot problem on my workhorse computer. Booting slax-6.0.0-rc5.iso from www.slax.org (a live distro) from CD gives the following messages: Loading /boot/vmlinuz ........... Loading /boot/initrd.gz ............ Ready. _ Silence. The next message should be, but does not appear: Uncompressing Linux ........... This message appears with the same CD on an old