Re: [tlug] pxelinux

[Blomberg David <dblomber@example.com>]

PLease let us know which OS PXE server you are using (if red hat pse
they have a few known problems) also the hardware and firmware levels
involved also quite a few issues here.

Thank You


On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:19, Sven Simon wrote:
> Anyone successfully booted Linux via PXE?
> I was trying my luck following the instructions at:
> http://portal.suse.de/sdb/en/2003/06/tsieden_pxe-install.html
> 
> The DHCP server correctly supplies the tftpserver IP and which file
> to load. I get the nice boot menu, choose which entry to boot. The
> linux kernel gets booted, but then it prints "Loading initrd..." and just
> hangs there for a while and then spits out: Boot failed; Press any
> key for retry or wait for reboot.
> 
> I've tried this on different hardware with different tftp and dhcp
> servers always with the same result. Could this be a bug in syslinux
> or am I just missing something in my config?
> 
> If anyone can reproduce this or successfully gets past this stage,
> please let me know.
> 
> Sven
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