iPXE chaining to PXELINUX.0

[bwiese]

(2011-07-22 18:22)mcb30 Wrote:  

(2011-07-22 17:55)bwiese Wrote:  DHCP
CHAIN thin\pxelinux.0

I see my prompt, and when I select memtest (or anything else), I get

Loading memdisk..
Loading img\memtest86-4.0.iso....ready.
iPXE>

What you've done looks right to me. Have you tried testing your pxelinux setup without booting into iPXE first, to check that pxelinux is known-working?

Michael

Yes, that's what I meant to indicate when I said "If I change DHCP to serve up PXELINUX.0 directly". If I change option 67 userclass None from thin\undionly.kpxe to thin\pxelinux.0 so the clients boot directly to PXELINUX, then iPXE is skipped, I see the prompt, and memdisk loads, my memtest.iso (or another image) loads, and then executes. This would seem to indicate to me that the pxelinux.0 setup is OK.

In my research I have come across references to undionly.kkpxe. I also see there's an ipxelinux.0 available (though this seems to be a pxelinux.0 replacement that incorporates the additional features of HTTP, AoE, FCoE, etc. directly into PXELINUX).

Any ideas? Is there a "keep pxe" setting I'm missing?

I've tried it from a VMware virtual machine to eliminate potential hardware/NIC issues, and it's easily reproduced there.