[PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Fri Dec 2 02:19:38 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:53 PM, John Paget Bourke
<john.bourke at mobileinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found it !
>
> The following pxe images DO NOT cause the ESXi install to hang
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  60928 Dec  2 01:38 menu.c32
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  26828 Dec  2 01:39 pxelinux.0
>
> The following pxe images cause the ESXi install to hang with fatal error: 10 (out of resources) at tools.t00
>
> -rw-r--r--  2 root root  39188 Apr 28  2009 menu.c32
> -rw-r--r--  2 root root  14716 Apr 28  2009 pxelinux.0
>
> No idea as yet which versions each of these are.  The first ones are most likely the most recent
>
> [root at Config tftpboot]# rpm -qa | grep syslinux
> syslinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
>
> The second one may be the one that comes with RHEL.  Did I install cobbler before updating syslinux ?
>
> Next question is why gPXE has the same problem.
>
> I am using
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  61361 Nov 30 09:33 undionly.kpxe
>
> Maybe I need to try some different versions ?

I'd make sure you have the most recent, pull from their github and
test with that if you're installing a distro RPM that provides them.
They source the NIC drivers from the kernel tree, so most likely there
was a patched bug that fixed the issue you're having at some point in
the past.


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