Re: [Etherboot-users] two pxelinux.0

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

On Aug 19, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Dinesh P. wrote:
> ... i have tryied to debug the problem but don't know what is it.??

Just saying that you tried to debug isn't enough, if what you want is 
help.  Without showing your work, you make the people trying to help 
you have to guess what really happened, and then you use the mailing 
list as a free consulting service.

You need to describe (preferably with some output) what exactly you 
did, and what happened.

For example, you did not include a copy of your pxelinux.cfg/default 
file.  If you had, we could see whether you made some mistakes in your 
configuration.  Also, your dhcpd.conf file might be interesting to see.

Further, Etherboot 5.3.7 is quite old.  Why not use 5.4.0, which is the 
current production release.

To learn to debug, you need to proceed methodically, make theories 
about what might be happening, and then create a test that proves or 
disproves your theory.

 From your message:

> i have compiled PXE images of thinstation and problem is that there 
> are two pxelinux.0 files 1 for the menu32 and another one of the 
> thinstation,

pxelinux.0 is rarely the problem.  Compiling your own version is 
probably useless, because your configuration is probably broken.

> i have tryied configuring same default config in config directory and 
> also copyied all the thinstation kernel and configuration files in 
> /tftpdroot/pxe and menu files at /tftpdroot now there are two 
> different pxelinux.0

Please show your configuration.  Directory structure, config files, and 
preferably some output, if possible.

>                when i boot the client system using etherboot 5.3.7 it 
> shows option to boot two images but when i select thinstation it 
> dispalys one . and stops for 1 min and then flicker display screen 
> comes.

Etherboot 5.4.0 is current.  Please download an image from 
rom-o-matic.net and do your testing with that.

Then there's the question of your kernels, which is where I suspect the 
real problem lies.  If you feed PXELINUX an nbi file (a kernel and 
initrd packaged by mknbi), I suspect bad things will happen.  PXELINUX 
deals with raw kernels and initrd files which are usually specified in 
the pxelinux.cfg/default file.

Hopefully with this information you will be able to make more progress 
in your debugging.

Marty

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