From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 16:27:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] PXE boot off HP zx6000 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jason P Holland wrote: > > hello, > i'm trying to do a PXE boot from an HP zx6000 workstation. My tftp > server is version 0.29-3 for Redhat ia4. I'm also using dhcp 3.0p11-9. I > get the following error from the EFI shell trying to do a lanboot > > PXE-E05: Download buffer is smaller than the requested file > Exit status code: Invalid Parameter > > i've seen a few messages about this in the archives, but nothing i tried > has worked. the file i want to boot off of is pxelinux.0 from the > syslinux package. its only 10820 bytes, is the buffer really too small or > is there another problem i'm just not seeing? if i need to post some > config files, please let me know. thanks I think pxelinux is only for ia32. Strange things might happen on ia64. Elilo supports PXE boot, just specify 'filename "elilo.efi";' in your DHCP config file, make sure it's available via the same file name from tftp and you should be set. Alex -- Alex Williamson Linux Development Lab alex_williamson@hp.com Hewlett Packard 970-898-9173 Fort Collins, CO