Hi all
I have a Zenith N-Station (1997) P166 64 Mb of Ram
it has a Intel LANDesk Service Agent version 0.98i
it doesn't seem to be flashable
I have tried methode from http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
Each time I use ethereal to check the protocol
The behavior is quite strange :
I have the "Boot :" line the pxelinux is loading correctly
But when I ask my image pxe, I have dumps on the screen
like that which are scrolling forever :
AX:0208
BX:0200
CX:0002
DX:0000
4000
I have seen in ethereal that only 35 packets are sent from the tftpserver
the 36th packet is never acknoledged
I have read this
{ PXE stacks based on Intel's 0.99 series code }
A lot of older PXE stacks are based on Intel LANDesk Service Agent II, versions
0.99, which were released by Intel as "PXE PDK v2.x", despite being
what can best be described as alpha quality. These stacks have numerous problems
and can trivially be crashed.
and I wonder how to call the 0.98i version ;-)
any ideas ?
thx in advance
abo2 wrote:> Hi all > > I have a Zenith N-Station (1997) P166 64 Mb of Ram > it has a Intel LANDesk Service Agent version 0.98i > it doesn't seem to be flashable >Good grief... I didn't know anything that ancient ever shipped out.> I have tried methode from http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php > Each time I use ethereal to check the protocol > > The behavior is quite strange : > > I have the "Boot :" line the pxelinux is loading correctly > But when I ask my image pxe, I have dumps on the screen > like that which are scrolling forever : > > AX:0208 > BX:0200 > CX:0002 > DX:0000 > 4000 >I have seen this before, although I don't remember what caused it. I will look at it, but I can't really promise anything. -hpa
abo2 wrote:> ;-) > > For your information (maybe it can help) when I only use bootp > I saw in ethereal that 1024 packets are sent to the card > The rest is ignored > It seems to be the limit of 640K images >You're not trying to download a zImage kernel, are you?> I was wondering for this card if we could change the chip directly on the card ? > This station is really old but it's very nice (no noise at all and very very small, so to make a firewall or little servers it's perfect) > If you need me to run any kind of program on it do not hesitate to send an email !No idea. -hpa
Sorry all I think it is juste a problem of understanding I use pxelinux (file = pxelinux.0) it is working since I have "Boot:" on the console Then I have a kernel image in the directory this kernel image have a label named "pxe" So I type pxe to boot the choosen kernel Then I saw in ethereal that only 35 packets are going though the tftp Then on the console I have the digit explained in a previous mail scrolling The computer is a Zenith N-Station (1997) with a intel eepro100 inside (directly on the motherboard) with a "LANDesk software version 0.98i" ll /tftpboot/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 da da 1263339 2002-11-16 22:44 linux.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10072 2002-11-16 20:34 pxelinux.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2002-11-16 21:41 pxelinux.cfg -rw-rw-rw- 1 da da 1439894 2002-11-16 20:30 rootfs.gz dda at prony:/tftpboot$ more pxelinux.cfg/C0A80001 PROMPT 1 LABEL pxe KERNEL linux.bin APPEND initrd=rootfs.gz flavor=bf2.4 IPAPPEND 1 Ask me for more details if it is still not clear Bye En r?ponse ? Josef Siemes <jsiemes at web.de>:> Hi, > > abo2 <abo2 at awalis.com> schrieb am 20.11.02 08:14:15: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:18:38 -0800 > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > > abo2 wrote: > > > > For your information (maybe it can help) when I only use bootp > > > > I saw in ethereal that 1024 packets are sent to the card > > > > The rest is ignored > > > > It seems to be the limit of 640K images > > > You're not trying to download a zImage kernel, are you? > > > > humm yes ;-P (even a bzImage) do I do wrong ? > > I was talking about bootp protocol directly in this case (no > pxelinux) > > My image is tfpboot.img > > 'bzImage' is different from 'zImage', but I hope that you already knew > this. > zImage is obsolete, since it is limited in kernel size. bzImage doesn't > have > this limitation. > > What did you try to do? What network card do you have, and especially > what > rom is on it? Is it a PXE rom, or something else? If it's a PXE Rom you > need some > sort of bootloader (e.g. pxelinux), if it's something different (e.g. an > etherboot > rom) you need to do something else (but that's sort out of scope for > this > list ...) > > > But when I use pxelinux, i change my dhcpd.conf and I use pxelinux.0 > > then I have the "Boot:" and then I ask for my image that have the > LABEL pxe > > If you get the Boot:-prompt (and some messages from pxelinux before) you > are quite > far on the way to a bootable client. Try to put some kernel image in the > same directory > where pxelinux.0 resides, enter this kernel on the boot prompt. You > should see the > kernel being downloaded, and panicking for a missing root filesystem. So > the only thing > you miss here is some root FS or some suitable initrd. > > Regards, > > Josef > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > Schon wieder Viren-Alarm? Bei WEB.DE FreeMail ist das kein Problem, > hier ist der Virencheck inklusive! > http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021158 > >
try changing the kernel file extension to something NOT '.bin'. I think it has a special meaning. Why not just 'linux' ? -----Original Message----- From: abo2 [mailto:abo2 at awalis.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:00 PM To: Josef Siemes Cc: 'Syslinux' Subject: Re: Re: [syslinux] Problems with old hardware Sorry all I think it is juste a problem of understanding I use pxelinux (file = pxelinux.0) it is working since I have "Boot:" on the console Then I have a kernel image in the directory this kernel image have a label named "pxe" So I type pxe to boot the choosen kernel Then I saw in ethereal that only 35 packets are going though the tftp Then on the console I have the digit explained in a previous mail scrolling The computer is a Zenith N-Station (1997) with a intel eepro100 inside (directly on the motherboard) with a "LANDesk software version 0.98i" ll /tftpboot/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 da da 1263339 2002-11-16 22:44 linux.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10072 2002-11-16 20:34 pxelinux.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2002-11-16 21:41 pxelinux.cfg -rw-rw-rw- 1 da da 1439894 2002-11-16 20:30 rootfs.gz dda at prony:/tftpboot$ more pxelinux.cfg/C0A80001 PROMPT 1 LABEL pxe KERNEL linux.bin APPEND initrd=rootfs.gz flavor=bf2.4 IPAPPEND 1 Ask me for more details if it is still not clear Bye En r?ponse ? Josef Siemes <jsiemes at web.de>:> Hi, > > abo2 <abo2 at awalis.com> schrieb am 20.11.02 08:14:15: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:18:38 -0800 > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > > > > > abo2 wrote: > > > > For your information (maybe it can help) when I only use bootp > > > > I saw in ethereal that 1024 packets are sent to the card > > > > The rest is ignored > > > > It seems to be the limit of 640K images > > > You're not trying to download a zImage kernel, are you? > > > > humm yes ;-P (even a bzImage) do I do wrong ? > > I was talking about bootp protocol directly in this case (no > pxelinux) > > My image is tfpboot.img > > 'bzImage' is different from 'zImage', but I hope that you already knew > this. zImage is obsolete, since it is limited in kernel size. bzImage > doesn't have > this limitation. > > What did you try to do? What network card do you have, and especially > what rom is on it? Is it a PXE rom, or something else? If it's a PXE > Rom you need some > sort of bootloader (e.g. pxelinux), if it's something different (e.g. an > etherboot > rom) you need to do something else (but that's sort out of scope for > this > list ...) > > > But when I use pxelinux, i change my dhcpd.conf and I use pxelinux.0 > > then I have the "Boot:" and then I ask for my image that have the > LABEL pxe > > If you get the Boot:-prompt (and some messages from pxelinux before) > you are quite far on the way to a bootable client. Try to put some > kernel image in the same directory > where pxelinux.0 resides, enter this kernel on the boot prompt. You > should see the > kernel being downloaded, and panicking for a missing root filesystem. So > the only thing > you miss here is some root FS or some suitable initrd. > > Regards, > > Josef > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ________ > Schon wieder Viren-Alarm? Bei WEB.DE FreeMail ist das kein Problem, > hier ist der Virencheck inklusive! > http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021158 > >_______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.