pxelinux.0 from syslinux distributed with RHEL6 has issues with HP BL460c gen8 servers
Issue
We use pxe boot to deploy new servers. The image used is the pxelinux.0 from the RHEL6 syslinux RPM.
Our configuration makes use of menu.c32
to display a boot menu on start-up.
When using it to deploy an HP blade BL460c gen8 we encountered two problems:
1. In many cases the boot menu displayed by pxelinux 'freezes';
2. When trying to boot from the local disk from the pxe (using localboot 0
), the server throws an error message of Illegal OpCode
with a red screen.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- pxelinux.0 from syslinux-4.02-4.el6.x86_64
- HP BL460c gen8 wiht BIOS versions
I31 05/30/2012
andI31 07/15/2012
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