Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel Baumann
retitle 570273 pxelinux requires tftpd supporting tsize severity 570273 minor tag 570273 upstream tag 570273 moreinfo thanks please retry with current syslinux (3.85). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe mario.ho...@tu-ilmenau.de writes: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you linked to on two systems: in VirtualBox and my (oldish) Toshiba laptop. All right, I think I got it...

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Ferenc Wagner wrote: But if you look in the NEWS file of Syslinux, which is packaged as /usr/share/doc/syslinux/changelog.gz (why?) you'll find:    * PXELINUX: We no longer require a TFTP server which supports      the tsize option for all transfers. Thanks for

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Frans Pop wrote: So that does seem to confirm that tsize is not the problem here. It also seems more likely that it's not syslinux that's broken, but either the PXE client in Mario's system(s), or his TFTP server (I'd bet on the latter). OTOH, tftpd-hpa is of

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I've done a quick test using tftpd-hpa with the '-r tsize' option, which should make it not accept that option. D-I still boots fine when I use the lenny or squeeze images. Could you please try tftpd (plain, from netkit-tftp)? I was

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-24 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 24 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:02:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: I've done a quick test using tftpd-hpa with the '-r tsize' option, which should make it not accept that option. D-I still boots fine when I use the lenny or squeeze

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you linked to on two systems: in VirtualBox and my (oldish) Toshiba laptop. All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: PXELINUX currently

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 570273 installation-reports thanks On Thursday 18 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: All right, I think I got it... syslinux/pxelinux.txt states, that: Cool. I'd half forgotten about that, but it is documented. I would suggest to put some notes regarding this issue in the

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-18 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:43:34PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: a) add a huge warning note about using Debian's tftpd package in conjunction with Network boot, and Something like the Note here you mean? http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s06.html.en Uh, I was carefully reading

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Package: debian-installer Version: 20100211 Hello, the debian-installer netboot stops after the message: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default The machine in question is an Asus P5Q-EM (Intel G45 chipset) with an Intel Core2Duo E2200 and 4G RAM. Neither the HDMI (default) nor the VGA

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: the debian-installer netboot stops after the message: Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default Have you tried enabling logging for your tftp server to see if there are any problems serving the files needed by the installer?

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:09:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Have you tried enabling logging for your tftp server to see if there are any problems serving the files needed by the installer? There are no such errors (as btw. the rest of my mail does also prove where I'm describing how I got the

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 17 February 2010, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: There are no such errors (as btw. the rest of my mail does also prove where I'm describing how I got the whole stuff working without that ominous vesamenu.c32 :)). Problem is: it works perfectly here for me using the daily image you

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:18:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: So we need to find out why it works so differently for you. I don't think it's a D-I issue as nothing has changed, and I'd like to rule out that it's not a local configuration issue before reassigning to syslinux. I'd really like

Bug#570273: debian-installer: netboot stops after loading pxelinux.cfg/default

2010-02-17 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:41:08AM +0100, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: I attached 3 tftpd logs: And, of course, I forgot the attachements :/ Mario -- snupidity bjmg: ja, logik ist mein fachgebiet. das liegt im gen uepsie in welchem? snupidity im zweiten X Feb 17 20:03:58 gate