Syslinux - Feb 2013 - [PXELinux 5.01] BUG: "unable to locate configuration file" if directory tftpboot/syslinux exists

Hi,

I'm using PXELinux (on Windows NT5.x, with Windows NT5.x tftpd and the
PXE server included in the "Windows XP Embedded Remote Boot Server").
This works well here since more than 10 years now.

Recently I created a subdirectory "syslinux" in my
"tftpboot" ... and
PXELINUX failed with the message "unable to locate configuration
file".
Renaming that directory works around the bug.

regards
Stefan Kanthak

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 08:06:55PM +0100, Stefan Kanthak
wrote:
> Hi,
Hello,

> I'm using PXELinux (on Windows NT5.x, with Windows NT5.x tftpd and the
> PXE server included in the "Windows XP Embedded Remote Boot
Server").
> This works well here since more than 10 years now.
Good to hear. Thanks for telling the compliment,
please tell it also outside the Syslinux community.

> Recently I created a subdirectory "syslinux" in my
"tftpboot" ... and
> PXELINUX failed with the message "unable to locate configuration
file".
> Renaming that directory works around the bug.
Thank you for reporting such issue. After all it is software you work with.
Please elaborate.

What else was changed beside creating the directory "syslinux"?
(Was it the only change??)

The 'Renaming that directory' is done to which new name?


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
> And is there a policy on top-posting vs. bottom-posting?
Yes.

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using PXELinux (on Windows NT5.x, with Windows NT5.x tftpd and the
> PXE server included in the "Windows XP Embedded Remote Boot
Server").
> This works well here since more than 10 years now.
> 
 
 What was (is) the path and name of your PXELINUX configuration file 
during all that time that it worked as expected? Which version of 
PXELINUX are you using?

> Recently I created a subdirectory "syslinux" in my
"tftpboot" ... and
> PXELINUX failed with the message "unable to locate configuration
file".
> Renaming that directory works around the bug.
> 
> regards
> Stefan Kanthak
> 
 Is there anything inside this new "syslinux" subdirectory? What's
its purpose? (What's the reason for its creation? Does it _have_ to 
be named "syslinux" and in that specific location?)

Regards,
Ady.

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 20:06 +0100, Stefan Kanthak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using PXELinux (on Windows NT5.x, with Windows NT5.x tftpd and the
> PXE server included in the "Windows XP Embedded Remote Boot
Server").
> This works well here since more than 10 years now.
> 
> Recently I created a subdirectory "syslinux" in my
"tftpboot" ... and
> PXELINUX failed with the message "unable to locate configuration
file".
> Renaming that directory works around the bug.
What version of PXELINUX are you using?

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center