Re: ESX4i and gPXE boot

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Viswanath Krishnamurthy
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Was there a definite way where it can be made to work?

If a good setup emerges from the mailing list, let's put it on the
wiki for easy reference in the future.

> 2. When optionROM is burnt to a card, gPXE hangs when trying to load
> image.tgz file (which is about 170MB). It consistently fails here and older
> versions seemed to work fine. (COMBOOT and Multiboot is disabled in gPXE).
> mbbot.c32 is the one shipped in ESX4i. I am wondering if gPXE memory is
> getting overwritten by the image being downloaded causing this behavior.

Is your setup here gPXE ROM -> pxelinux.0 -> ESX4i mboot.c32?

Stefan

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