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@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 ? Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: John Paget Bourke [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 01 December 2011 13:21 To: 'cobbler mailing list' Subject: RE: [PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5 Sorry, My mistake, PXE/ESXi 5 - OK gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK It is an Intel card, Desktop Pro 1G. I will start looking at some variations and try them out. There may be some different gPXE builds I can do. Maybe there is some UNDI variation. Also an interesting comment from this blog http://blog.markusbordihn.de/2009/04/gpxe-and-localboot.html "Because pxelinux will unload from the memory before it load the chain.c32 it works without any problems and also the localboot has the full avalible memory" I am wondering if gPXE somehow operates within it's own memory restricted environment. Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Cammarata Sent: 01 December 2011 13:10 To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, John Paget Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I manually install ESXi on my hardware and then create an ESXi VM inside > (ESXi on ESXi), then try build from Cobbler with gPXE, it works !!! > > So gPXE/ESXi 5 - OK > So gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK > So gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK > > So it must be some kind of hardware issue, some strange interaction between > gPXE and ESXi on that hardware ? > > Maybe I need to put this to the gPXE people ? Is it an Intel NIC? I vaguely remember seeing a post somewhere about Intel cards allocating a huge amount of buffers, causing issues when booting on a kvm guest, however I can't seem to find it now. Also, I'm not 100% clear on which situations are working for you and which ones aren't - #1 and #2 seem to be the same. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
