Created attachment 893411 [details] Epic PXE failure Description of problem: PXE boot fails with message "Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported" when kernel image name ends with ".0" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): syslinux-4.05-7.fc20.x86_64 and also in an earlier version: PXELINUX 3.80 2009-05-04 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit a known working PXE configuration, changing the KERNEL line from: KERNEL whatever to KERNEL whatever.0 2. ln -s (or copy) the whatever kernel to whatever.0 3. Try and boot from PXE again Actual results: Hard lockup with above message hidden in a crazy plaid color pattern Expected results: A booting PXE configuration Additional info: An example using RHEL 6.5 # cat templates/rhel65.menu MENU TITLE Template rhel65 DEFAULT default TIMEOUT 1 LABEL default MENU LABEL default KERNEL vmlinuz.fedora.rhel65 APPEND ks=http://192.168.2.222/kickstart/rhel65/default.cfg initrd=initrd.fedora.rhel65 ramdrive_size=8192 The above configuration boots just fine. However, if I change KERNEL to this: KERNEL vmlinuz.fedora.rhel65.0 and run this command (from my tftproot): # ln -s vmlinuz.fedora.rhel65 vmlinuz.fedora.rhel65.0 And try to PXEboot again, I get the failure. I'm attaching the screenshot of the failure, mostly because it is awesome, but also because if you squint you can see the error message along the top-left. :) Thanks! ~james
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