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Swati Tiwari

2010-Mar-12 00:59 UTC

[syslinux] PXELINUX menu is not displayed at start-up

Hello,

I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a virtual machine using
Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to experiment with the menu options of
pxelinux and this is my pxelinux.cfg/default file.

 # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200
default menu.c32
prompt 0
default fai-generated
timeout 300
#ONTIMEOUT local

MENU TITLE PXE Menu

LABEL fai-generated
        MENU LABEL Fai Generated
        kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
        append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install


When I start the virtual machine, it is correctly able to identify that it
must read the pxe information from the pxelinux.cfg/default file on the tftp
server. However, no menu is displayed and the installation continues. Could
anyone please help me in getting this menu displayed?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much!

-- 
Regards,
Swati

Lindgren Daniel

2010-Mar-12 05:19 UTC

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> I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a 
> virtual machine using Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to 
> experiment with the menu options of pxelinux and this is my 
> pxelinux.cfg/default file.
> 
>  # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 
> 172.16.31.200 default menu.c32 prompt 0 default fai-generated 
> timeout 300 #ONTIMEOUT local
> 
> MENU TITLE PXE Menu
> 
> LABEL fai-generated
>         MENU LABEL Fai Generated
>         kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
>         append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  
> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live 
> FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install
The first line should be several lines, like this:

# generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200 
default menu.c32
prompt 0
default fai-generated 
timeout 300
#ONTIMEOUT local

Make sure that menu.c32 is in the same directory as pxelinux.0 on the
TFTP server.

http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Menu

Cheers,
Daniel

Leenders, Peter

2010-Mar-12 10:00 UTC

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Hello Swati,

do you have only one entry in your pxe menu, if so try to add a second one. At
least with older pxelinux versions the menu is only displayed if there are at
least 2 entries.

Peter Leenders



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Hello,

I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a virtual machine using
Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to experiment with the menu options of
pxelinux and this is my pxelinux.cfg/default file.

 # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200
default menu.c32
prompt 0
default fai-generated
timeout 300
#ONTIMEOUT local

MENU TITLE PXE Menu

LABEL fai-generated
        MENU LABEL Fai Generated
        kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
        append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install


When I start the virtual machine, it is correctly able to identify that it
must read the pxe information from the pxelinux.cfg/default file on the tftp
server. However, no menu is displayed and the installation continues. Could
anyone please help me in getting this menu displayed?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much!

-- 
Regards,
Swati
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2010-Mar-12 23:50 UTC

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Swati Tiwari wrote:> Hello,
>
> I have the following problem. I am trying to pxeboot a virtual machine
> using
> Sun's Virtualbox. I am trying to experiment with the menu options of
> pxelinux and this is my pxelinux.cfg/default file.
>
>  # generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200
> default menu.c32
> prompt 0
> default fai-generated
> timeout 300
> #ONTIMEOUT local
>
> MENU TITLE PXE Menu
>
> LABEL fai-generated
>         MENU LABEL Fai Generated
>         kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
>         append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live
> FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install
>
>
> When I start the virtual machine, it is correctly able to identify that it
> must read the pxe information from the pxelinux.cfg/default file on the
> tftp
> server. However, no menu is displayed and the installation continues.
> Could
> anyone please help me in getting this menu displayed?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Swati
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You use the "default" keyword two times.
Get a recent PXELINUX version (one that supports the UI keyword) and try
this config:

# generated by fai-chboot for host cdbexample with IP 172.16.31.200
UI menu.c32
prompt 0
default fai-generated
timeout 300
#ONTIMEOUT local

MENU TITLE PXE Menu

LABEL fai-generated
        MENU LABEL Fai Generated
        kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-amd64
         append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=172.16.31.23:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_ACTION=install


- Gert Hulselmans

Swati Tiwari

2010-Mar-15 21:36 UTC

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Thank you all very much for your help. I had the following problems.

1. No menu.c32 file in the tftp boot directory. I copied it there.
2. I had the "default" keyword twice in the file which I got rid of.

Thanks again, really appreciate it!

-- 
Regards,
Swati

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