[SOLVED] Re: PXE Simple Menu (menu.c32) problem

[Melvyn de Kort]

Solved! It was a client issue, other clients did show the menu!


Melvyn de Kort wrote:
> I used wireshark to sniff the network to see what is going on.
> It seems that the client requests the menu.c32 and the server sends it.
> After that nothing happens, it just seems that the client hangs.
>
>
> Melvyn de Kort wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have a Fedora Core 5 server with a pxe server.
>> What I'd like to have is a boot menu that asks the client to select 
>> the appropriate label.
>> I found some documentation about menu.c32 from the syslinux folder 
>> ("/usr/lib/syslinux/menu.c32").
>> I copied it to "/tftpboot" and setup my pxe config file.
>> This is my "/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default" file:
>> <file>
>> DEFAULT menu.c32
>> PROMPT 0
>>
>> MENU TITLE PXE Boot Menu
>>
>> LABEL memtest
>>       MENU LABEL memtest
>>       KERNEL  memtest
>> </file>
>>
>> As far as I found information it should work, but it doesn't.
>> This is the client output:
>> <output>
>> ...
>> Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default
>> .
>> </output>
>> After the "." the pxe client lockes up.
>> When I don't use "default menu.c32" it says "boot: " here instead of "."
>>
>> Can anyone help me?
>>
>> Melvyn de Kort
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