Pxe-boot uses wrong filename

Hello,
I have a working setup for pxe-boot.(testet with my Desktop).
My DHCP-Server supplies as filename "pxelinux". My new Thinkpad S531 is unable to boot.
The log of my tftp-server shows, that my TP adds a sign at the end of the filename on request, and of couse,
my tftp-server is unable to find that file.
The added sign ist not from the alphabet, so I cant put it in here. If I change the filnename on my "filename"-diretive of my dhcp-server p.e. to "pxelinux.0" an other sign is added to the filerequest of my TP.
Secure boot ist off.
Is this a bug in my efi?
Thanks for reading

Thanks to both for replies. Correcting the default boot order was easy but getting the internet connection to work took a little longer. I solved it by changing the device name as suggested here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … evice_name
There was nothing in /etc/udev/rules.d so I created the file 10-network.rules and used the enp2s0 device name which was working with the older kernel.
I'm still wondering why this mixup happened in the first place but anyway, it's working now so many thanks for your replies.

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(C) Copyright 2009 Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved
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I'm working with a client on the operating system deployment module of SCCM.
Their network configuration currently has a single large subnet for client
computers with a DHCP server on the same subnet. The SCCM subnet is
configured on a seperate subnet with no DHCP server on the subnet. We want to
configure client computers to be able to boot using the PXE client to deploy
OS images to the machines but can not get PXE-boot to work correctly.
Also, the client does not want to make changes to their network
infrastructure routers or switches to remedy this problem. Are there settings
on the DHCP or SCCM servers we can implement to make this work? If so, what
needs to be installed or configured on each server. We currently already have
WDS installed on the SCCM server and the SCCM server is configured as a PXE
Service Point within SCCM. Both WDS and the PXE Service Point seem to be working fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary

I am Brazilian,
sorry for wrong english
My DHCP is on linux,
in my own structure VLANS
The system center is on the network
10.0.4.0/24
The machines on the network 10.0.5.0/24
The problem is that the machines that
are not on the same network system center
can not boot
I tried configuring / etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf
follows
option vendor-class-identifier "PXEClient";
option bootfile-name "\
\ SMSBOOT \ \ x86 \
\ wdsnbp.com";
option tftp-server-name
"10.0.4.101"; ---->
IP server
But it did not work, anyone know
how to configure?

PXE boot and video mode

Hello all,
I posted about this problem a while ago but now I have more information.
6.5 SP2 IR1.
The problem: Booting from CD results in a video mode with far more lines and
column than booting PXE. PXE is always 80x25, on many different hardware
types. I want it to be like the CD.
Theoretically, the video mode is controlled by the vga= parameter on the
kernel's command line. For PXE, the kernel command line comes from <imaging
server>\sys\tftp\cmds, various files therein. Here are the contents of a
typical file:
KERNEL boot/linux
APPEND initrd=boot/initrd vga=0x314 install=tftp://$TFTPIP/boot
rootimage=/root PROXYADDR=$PROXYADDR TFTPIP=$TFTPIP splash=silent
PXEBOOT=YES mode=5
Notice the vga= parameter.
I can modify this vga parameter any way I like, without effect. I have
tried:
- removing the parameter entirely
- setting it to ask
- setting it to vga_ask
- setting it to single-digit numbers e.g. 1, 2
- setting it to other 0x3nnn options
- setting it to extended
It should be possible for anybody to replicate this simply by changing the
vga parameter in one of your CMD files and booting that particular PXE
option. I suggest using "ask" as it is the one that would give the most
visibly obvious evidence of working or not working.
The boot loader for PXE appears to be linld.com. So, I took my PXE
materials and Novell's linld (to ensure same version) and ran them from DOS.
When I run them from DOS, the vga= parameter DOES have an effect; it behaves
exactly as it should.
So, the situation appears to be that linld launched via PXE ignores the vga
parameter while linld launched manually from DOS does not, on the same
hardware.
Working with linld under DOS yielded some interesting information. The text
files specifying the kernel command line parameters for PXE are not actually
in anything remotely like the format linld requires. Having KERNEL and
APPEND keywords is more characteristic of other boot loaders. If you run
linld without parameters under DOS, it gives you very terse command line
information, which is as follows:
LINLD v0.97
Syntax:
LINLD [image=<file>] [initrd=<file>] [vga=vgamode] [cl=<kernel cmdline>]
vgamode: ask,extended,normal or dec/oct/hex number
Use quotes: "cl=..." if you need spaces in cmdline
Use cl=@filename to take cmdline from file
So compared to the CMD file provided for PXE, what linld would really want
is this:
linld image=boot/linux initrd=boot/initrd vga=0x314 [email protected]
where params.txt would contain:
install=tftp://$TFTPIP/boot
rootimage=/root
PROXYADDR=$PROXYADDR
TFTPIP=$TFTPIP
splash=silent
PXEBOOT=YES
mode=5
(It's worth noting that things are actually even slightly more complicated,
because the variables used in the CMD file (e.g. $PROXYADDR) don't actually
work; I have not found any way to use variables on the command line.)
All this tells me that before Novell launches linld, it is internally
processing the contents of these CMD files and spitting out a command line
that linld can really work with. My experience indicates that the vga
parameter is being incorrectly handled in this process.
I cannot figure out where the DOS environment that must exist during the PXE
boot process is coming from. (There must be a DOS environment, because
linld is a DOS Linux launcher.) It was easy to tell with the old preworx
materials, because you could see the .bin files which were nothing but
images of DOS boot floppies; it was even possible to open them in
third-party PXE utilities. I see no comparable files in the current boot
materials. The only other interesting file is loadlin.dnx, but I suspect it
is not involved because the old preworx process had DNX files as well and
they served a different purpose. Consequently I can't look at what is
happening when linld is launched, so I can't get any further in trying to
figure out the problem.
I would be very interested to know whether anybody out there can get their
PXE materials to respond sensibly to vga=ask.
If you can, I'd be interested to know the dates and times of all the backend
NLMs, in case my problem is due to incorrect updating/version mismatch.
If anybody can shed light on the innards of what happens when linld is
launched during PXE boot, I would love to know.
Thanks,
Lisa.

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Pxe boot sun x4170-m2 LSI raid 5 disks issues 2.10_u9 rel

Hi Gurus,
I am trying to image sun fire x4170-m2 series servers with Latest solaris 10.u9 patch set using Raid-5 disks setup with one hot-spare. Pxe boot works but i minboot not able to find raid-5 disks which is about 1.2 TB disks size. Where as if i used DVD to boot the servers it works properly. What i am missing. Here is my pxe entry and menu.list<mac-address> entry. I tried to insert driver LSI megraid driver with x86.miniroot, but it's already available into kernel/drv.
-dhcpd.conf entry.
host foobar { hardware ethernet 00:21:28:8E:3D:F2; fixed-address 10.228.150.14; next-server 140.87.100.21; filename "010021288E3DF2"; option host-name "foorbar.us.oracle.com";}
menu.1st.<mac-address>
cat /tftpboot/menu.lst.010021288E3DF2
default=0
timeout=30
min_mem64 1024
title Solaris_10 install_x86_64_2.10_u9
kernel /I86PC.Solaris_10-9/multiboot kernel/unix - install - nowin -B console=i86pc,install_config=140.87.100.21:/export/jumpstart_x86_64_2.10_u9,sysid_config=140.87.100.21:/export/sysid_2.10_u9/10.228.144,install_media=152.68.248.67:/vol/local/x86/solaris/100/base/u9/mar2011,install_boot=140.87.100.21:/export/install_x86_64_2.10_u9_new/boot -v -m verbose
module /I86PC.Solaris_10-9/x86.miniroot
Please let me know if you have any solution for this issue.
Thanks & Regards,
-Sunil.

Hi.
Read thread:
X4x70 (M1) with extremely slow disk I/O
Try workaround the problem by adding the following line to /etc/system and then reboot:
set idle_cpu_no_deep_c = 1
Regards.

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