Re: [Etherboot-users] Boot menu ?

[Hamish G. <ha...@pr...>]

Marty,

You really are a saint!

I really like the way you expressed your encouragement and tips for 
Dinesh to get more help from the list.

If I may, I will cut and paste those sage words to newbies on other 
other lists I subscribe to - I will, of course, reference the source of 
the quote!

Hamish

Marty Connor wrote:
> Dinesh,
> 
> You need to do a better job asking for help.  You provide very little in 
> the way of information, and then you literally beg for help.
> 
> I applaud Alexander for helping you, but I also think that you need to 
> do more work on your own to try and figure things out.
> 
> If you are having trouble with SYSLINUX/PXELINUX, then at least 
> demonstrate that you have read (or attempted to read) the 
> documentation.  There is also a mailing list for help specifically with 
> that software, if you can't figure out the documentation or examples.
> 
> Also, in debugging, you should attempt to create simple test cases, and 
> when they fail, send input, output, and what you thought should happen 
> to the list for analysis.  Otherwise, all we can do is guess what might 
> be happening.
> 
> I want to encourage you to proceed, but I also want to strongly suggest 
> that if you want help, you need to show that the time of the people 
> trying to help you is not wasted.  You can do this by showing that 
> progress you have made, by producing output, and explaining in more 
> detail what you did.
> 
> If your English skills are a problem, please find a friend who has 
> better skills, and have them help you, in exchange for help with 
> something they need help with.
> 
> I hope you succeed, but even more I hope that in this process you 
> develop better debugging skills, and improve your methods of asking for 
> help.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marty
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Dinesh P. wrote:
> 
>> Hi, there,
>>            Well now i have booted client using pxelinux.0 with default 
>> config provided by you but problem is that when it try to load kernel 
>> image it say "Invalid or Corrupt kernel image" and that image is 
>> compiled with thinstation and it works it if specified insted of 
>> pxelinux.0 in DHCP but it not works in pxelinux so pealse help me what 
>> is the problem.
>>
>> Dinesh P.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Heinz" <mai...@gm...>
>> To: <Kevin>
>> Cc: "Dinesh P." <glo...@gm...>
>> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Etherboot-users] Boot menu ?
>>
>>
>>>> LABEL thinstation nbi
>>>>     MENU LABEL thinstation
>>>>     KERNEL thinstation.nbi
>>>> LABEL thinstation regular
>>>>     MENU LABEL thinstation
>>>>     KERNEL vmlinuz
>>>>     append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=initrd root=/dev/rd/0 vga=791
>>>
>>>
>>> that is wrong.
>>>
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> LABEL thin1
>>>     MENU LABEL thinstation nbi
>>>     KERNEL thinstation.nbi
>>> LABEL thin2
>>>     MENU LABEL thinstation pxe
>>>     KERNEL vmlinuz
>>>     append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=initrd root=/dev/rd/0 vga=791
>>>
>>>
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