Syslinux - Feb 2006 - pxelinux don't uncompress kernel and initrd

Hallo,

for last Friday, i have a strangely probleme with one of oure clients. 
I can power on , the bootprom make the connection to the dhcpserver, the 
client load the pxelinux , it load the kernel and the initrd.img, say ready 
and this was it. It dont uncompress the initrd and the kernel . I can wait a 
long ime and the only that I can do is ctrl-alt-del. It give no error code.

I have more than 50 clients and only this one have a probleme. All the clients 
boot the same kernel and the same image.

I have test the memory of the client with memtest86, all ok. I can boot 
knoppix und the installt windows, all ok. 

Can someone help me or can give a tip where I can search.

regards

Monika
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:34:33AM +0100, Monika Strack wrote:
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> I have more than 50 clients and only this one have a probleme. All the
clients
> boot the same kernel and the same image.
> 
> I have test the memory of the client with memtest86, all ok. I can boot 
> knoppix und the installt windows, all ok. 
> 
> Can someone help me or can give a tip where I can search.
It could be a hardware problem.
If the failing client is the only one of it's kind,
then it could be problem in the network driver
occuring only at bigger file transfers ( kernel & initrd )


HtH
GSt
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Monika Strack wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> for last Friday, i have a strangely probleme with one of oure clients. 
> I can power on , the bootprom make the connection to the dhcpserver, the 
> client load the pxelinux , it load the kernel and the initrd.img, say ready
> and this was it. It dont uncompress the initrd and the kernel . I can wait
a
> long ime and the only that I can do is ctrl-alt-del. It give no error code.
> 
The fact that it prints "Ready" indicates that the problem is in the 
transition from pxelinux to the kernel.  One possibility is that it has 
problems shutting down the PXE stack.  Try putting "keeppxe" on the 
kernel command line.

	-hpa