Syslinux - May 2004 - Re: problem and maybe bug in 2.08 and later with vmware 4.5.1

>I found a problem with pxelinux in 2.08 and 2.09pre13 when working with
>vmware 4.5.1 (the latest with builtin support fpr pxe-boot). With 2.07 and
>2.01 it works without problems. But when trying the later versions there is
>trouble. I reach pxeboot.msg
>and it shows fine but when I try to choose an image it dosent give keyboard
>feedback (first I thought it had hanged) but after some testing it showed
>that it just dont give direct feedback until 300 sek (aprox) has gone. If I
>have made a correct choice, for example
>number 4 and return. After 300 sekunds the choice is showed and the loading
>start and finsishes without problem.
>Some real delays occuring here.
I have this same problem with pxelinux 2.09 and 2.10-pre3.
pxelinux-2.07 works fine.
vmware 4.5.1build 7568 runing on windows xp

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Arkadiusz Patyk wrote:
>>I found a problem with pxelinux in 2.08 and 2.09pre13 when working with
>>vmware 4.5.1 (the latest with builtin support fpr pxe-boot). With 2.07
and
>>2.01 it works without problems. But when trying the later versions there
is
>>trouble. I reach pxeboot.msg
>>and it shows fine but when I try to choose an image it dosent give
keyboard
>>feedback (first I thought it had hanged) but after some testing it
showed
>>that it just dont give direct feedback until 300 sek (aprox) has gone.
If I
>>have made a correct choice, for example
>>number 4 and return. After 300 sekunds the choice is showed and the
loading
>>start and finsishes without problem.
>>Some real delays occuring here.
> 
> 
> I have this same problem with pxelinux 2.09 and 2.10-pre3.
> pxelinux-2.07 works fine.
> vmware 4.5.1build 7568 runing on windows xp
> 
It's a bug in the VMWare PXE stack.  There isn't anything I can do about
it.

	-=hpa

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 16:26, Arkadiusz Patyk wrote:
> >I found a problem with pxelinux in 2.08 and 2.09pre13 when working with
> >vmware 4.5.1 (the latest with builtin support fpr pxe-boot). With 2.07
and
> >2.01 it works without problems. But when trying the later versions
there is
[snip]
> I have this same problem with pxelinux 2.09 and 2.10-pre3.
> pxelinux-2.07 works fine.
> vmware 4.5.1build 7568 runing on windows xp
Rule of thumb:

When you have two applications, one open source and one closed source,
the bug is in the closed source ;-)

If VMWare's built in pxe won't work, Etherboot's pcnet32 driver
should
work and the 5.3 cvs supports pxe...

Tim