[gPXE] Local Boot + SW Raid

[Andrew Bobulsky]

Randy,

Syslinux binaries are available at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ in a variety of archive
file formats.  gpxelinux.0 should be included in there too.

If you need any information on Syslinux, or if you'd like to try their
mailing list for some help with your issue, the Syslinux website is at
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project

<http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project>Also, for
what it's worth, your issue does seem rather odd to me too ;-)

Best of luck to you.

-Andrew Bobulsky

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> FYI, I'm using RAID1.  Very basic...never seen this issue until now (gpxe).
>
> Is there a way to obtain a binary of pxelinux.0?  I am using the binary
> gpxelinux.0 from the latest syslinux snapshot.  I could not find the binary
> version of pxelinux.0...
>
> --
> Randy
> www.FastServ.com
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at gmail.com>
> To: Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com>
> Cc: gpxe at etherboot.org, For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa
> <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:29:09 +0000
> Subject: Re: [gPXE] Local Boot + SW Raid
>
> > This is worth forwarding to SYSLINUX.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:21 AM, Randy McAnally <rsm at fast-serv.com>
> wrote:
> > > For some reason I cannot local boot (the default) from any software
> RAID
> > > system (where the boot partition is linux raid).  It hangs at "Booting
> from
> > > local disk..." but never exits the pxe rom and just sits there
> requiring a
> reboot.
> >
> > Which RAID level are you using?  I think RAID-0 and RAID-1 should
> > work fine - the bootloader does not need to be aware.  I don't know how
> > booting from the other RAID levels is supposed to work.
> >
> > > All other booting methods (network based) work fine.
> > >
> > > If I swap out gpxelinux.0 with the legacy pxelinux.0 that comes with
> CentOS
> > > and use the same config, local boot works just fine.
> >
> > Perhaps the PXELINUX in your gpxelinux.0 and CentOS pxelinux.0 are of
> > different versions.  To determine for sure whether gPXE is involved
> > in this issue, please build gpxelinux.0 and pxelinux.0 from the same
> > SYSLINUX source tree.
> >
> > > Is this a known limitation and if so, how can I get around this?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Randy
> ------- End of Original Message -------
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