Introduction

Evaluate Syslinux 6.01, we want to be able to use http:// for loading initrd, and therefore maintain only one server between our Datacenter.

Installation

• Login to lxsoft06:

sudo yum -y install nasm xfsprogs-devel libuuid-devel netpbm-progs glibc-devel gnu-efi

wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-6.01.tar.bz2
tar xvjf syslinux-6.01.tar.bz2
cd syslinux-6.01

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/files/gnu-efi_3.0u.orig.tar.gz/downloadwget http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/files/gnu-efi_3.0u.orig.tar.gz/download
tar xvzf gnu-efi_3.0u.orig.tar.gz
cd gnu-efi_3.0u
make install PREFIX=/usr
cd ..

make install PREFIX=/usr bios efi64

• Log on lxdist and update lxpxeboottest alias with new ips:

mnt/data2/sbin/dns-update --zone internal --alias lxpxeboottest --iplist 128.142.225.237

Aims2 file through HTTP

• http://lxsoft06.cern.ch/aims2/boot/

Tests

• Change your landb Operating System to "LINTESTPXE"

Errors

tftp

• intermittent error with tftp

tftpd: read: No route to host

• iptables down, selinux off, network?

pxelinux

• menu freezes just after loading the vesamenu.c32 sometimes.