Bug 813958

Summary:	PXE localboot option recursively loops with booting local drive
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Miller <millerte>
Component:	syslinux	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	pjones
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Description Tim Miller 2012-04-18 20:53:10 UTC

Description of problem:
My systems use PXE to boot in order to determine whether to boot the local hard drive or kickstartable and reimage.

When my TFTP/PXE system is running RHEL4 (syslinux 2.11) the setup works just fine.

When my TFTP/PXE system is running RHEL6 (syslinux 4.02) with identical configuration files, my IBM HS22 blades recursive call the PXE boot mechanism until it exhausts "low" memory.

By changing the BIOS boot order, I have verified that the RHEL6 OS installation on the booting client does boot just fine. So, PXE/SYSLINUX is not properly handing off to the local drive boot option.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
syslinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
syslinux-tftpboot-4.02-4.el6.x86_64 (package pxelinux.0 is located in)

How reproducible:
every time.

Additional info:

This apparently has been observed elsewhere but not yet resolved upstream. A SYSLINUX mailing list thread of the conversation can be found here:

http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/mwjwmC4yfNM0XYZ87y3B#gkk0G71zU0ZlW8d

As in the thread, I have tried 'localboot 0' and 'localboot -1' options in my pxelinux.cfg configuration files both options behave the same: PXE looping until memory exhaustion.

Also, I have taken the pxelinux.0 fle from 2.11 (RHEL4) and copied onto the RHEL6 system and the clients boot as expected. There is clearly a problem with the 4.02 pxelinux.0 file.

NOTE: the thread from the mailing list identifies the version of code where the bug was introduced!!! Perhaps that can be backed out fairly easily?

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2012-04-30 17:50:40 UTC

This needs to be addressed upstream, moving over to Fedora.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:03:44 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

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