Re: [tlug] pxelinux

[Sven Simon <sven@example.com>]

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
>
Nevermind all. SuSE 9 comes with syslinux-2.06 and after
I've downloaded the syslinux-2.08 sources and copied the
pxelinux.0 file to /tftpboot it worked.

Sven