Re: ESX4i and gPXE boot

Thx,
viswa

On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:18 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

Yes you are right

viswa

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