Some time ago, I sent a email to list. With my perfect english, wasn't possible explain my problem, then I recorded a video, end upload to youtube. Please watch the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1KJ8sA4_5w Samuel Rios Carvalho
Samuel Rios Carvalho wrote:> Some time ago, I sent a email to list. With my perfect english, wasn't > possible explain my problem, then I recorded a video, end upload to > youtube. > Please watch the video. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1KJ8sA4_5w >OK, I have no idea what is actually happening in that video. I watched it a few times, and all it did was make me seasick. -hpa
> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:09:10 -0300 > From: "Samuel Rios Carvalho" <nhawkbr at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Pxelinux freezed > To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com> > Message-ID: > <4ed0bc0810020709i38dbcf1fk6f6117d299eecdb4 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Seasick? sorry. I'm a future Steven Spielberg. LOL. > This problem is happing in all machines. > > > Samuel Rios Carvalho > > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > >> Samuel Rios Carvalho wrote: >> >>> Some time ago, I sent a email to list. With my perfect english, wasn't >>> possible explain my problem, then I recorded a video, end upload to >>> youtube. >>> Please watch the video. >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1KJ8sA4_5w >>> >>> >> OK, I have no idea what is actually happening in that video. I watched >> it a few times, and all it did was make me seasick. >> >> -hpa >> >> >>What it looks like to me (as an avid film enthusiast) is that after [what I am assuming is] the PXELINUX menu loads, and just as the countdown for the "Automatic boot" reaches 0, the operator starts scrolling up and down the menu [using the arrow keys?] and then it eventually freezes. I can't make out what the first menu entry name is, but the second and third entries appear to be "WINDOWS XP" and "MEMTEST". Also, it looks like there is some reverse video at the bottom left-hand side of the screen, and the camera appears to pan towards it to emphasize something(?). While this film is very edgy and the acting is quite believable, the plot is a mystery... Any chance of posting the configuration file and SYSLINUX/PXELINUX version information? Pete Capriccio
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:08:53 -0300 > From: "Samuel Rios Carvalho" <nhawkbr at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Pxelinux freezed > To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com> > Message-ID: > <4ed0bc0810030908x63204a6cq589bf94977e8a05a at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Ops, sorry. > > My config file. 3.71 version. > > > ==== START ===> > # golf: 192.168.1.67 > DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 > #DEFAULT 1 > PROMPT 0 > MENU TITLE GOLF > MENU BACKGROUND 40 > menu color sel 7;37;40 > NOESCAPE 1 > ALLOWOPTIONS 0 > TIMEOUT 100 > ONTIMEOUT 1 > > > label 1 > menu label OPENSUSE 11.0 > kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25-suse > append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.5:/mnt/imagens/golf_suse > ip=::::golf::dhcp rw > > label 2 > menu label WINDOWS XP > kernel chain.c32 > append hd0 > > label 3 > menu label MEMTEST > kernel memtest > > ==== FINISH ===> > > > Samuel Rios Carvalho > >Thanks for posting the version and configuration file. Can you confirm what is happening in the video? It looks like the operator is scrolling up and down just as the timeout is about to happen or perhaps has already happened? After that, I think you are indicating that the system freezes. Also, you mentioned that this is happening on all clients, correct? Are they all the same type of client (it looks like a laptop in the video)? What happens if there is no operator intervention -- does the timeout function properly and does the system boot from "label 1"? Pete Capriccio
> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:02:39 -0300 > From: "Samuel Rios Carvalho" <nhawkbr at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Pxelinux freezed > To: "For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com> > Message-ID: > <4ed0bc0810071002v7ffe22e0l4e50eb27f2b8fba6 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > This is happen in all clients. > isn't laptop, it is a desktop. Here only exist desktops to etherboot. > after some seconds, the menu freeze, stop. Ctrl+alt+del don't work too. > The operator (me), is scrolling up an down, then after some seconds, stop all. > with or without operator, this problem happen. > > Samuel Rios Carvalho >Just so we are clear here: - are all the client machines the same, that is, the same network card, BIOS version, etc, or are there a variety of different types of desktops? You stated, "with or without operator" -- to me that says that in the case of no operator intervention, after 10 seconds has elapsed, the ONTIMEOUT statement becomes true which should then set the command line to "label 1"'s definition:> ==== START ===> >> > >> # golf: 192.168.1.67 > >> DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 > >> #DEFAULT 1 > >> PROMPT 0 > >> MENU TITLE GOLF > >> MENU BACKGROUND 40 > >> menu color sel 7;37;40 > >> NOESCAPE 1 > >> ALLOWOPTIONS 0 > >> TIMEOUT 100 > >> ONTIMEOUT 1 > >> > >> > >> label 1 > >> menu label OPENSUSE 11.0 > >> kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25-suse > >> append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.5:/mnt/imagens/golf_suse > >> ip=::::golf::dhcp rw > >>If it was unable to find the kernel file, I'm pretty sure that it would reload the DEFAULT (vesamenu.c32) and then begin the countdown to the TIMEOUT again (or at least that has been my experience). Have you tried booting "label 1" locally from, say, SYSLINUX instead of PXELINUX, just to eliminate any chance that the PXE BIOS on your [embedded] NIC card is, say, crappy? In the case where you are just scrolling up and down the menu, that should stop any TIMEOUT countdown in progress, so I can't understand why it should freeze by just scrolling up and down the menu. Can you boot any other menu entries? Do you get the same results using the text menu (menu.c32)? [I'm clearly grasping at/for straws here] Here's hoping any of this is helpful and not just adding a lot of noise to the list... Pete Capriccio