[bug #16885] pxegrub load kernel hang up

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                 Summary: pxegrub load kernel hang up
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: briearn
            Submitted on: Montag 19.06.2006 um 12:40
                Category: Network
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 0.97
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

May be anyone knows about that:

I have a SUN X4100 connected via Cisco 3560G. The pxegrub image as well as
the menu.lst are on the tftp server of the switch itself. The switch is
serving DHCP and TFTP.

So, when I switch on the X4100 and the PXE boot shows up, the system gets an
IP really immediately (<1 sec) and it starts as well instantly to download
the pxegrub. After that it executes the pxegrub and hand over the control to
pxegrub. So fine so good.

Now (what Etherreal on the monitored port on the switch shows) pxegrub tries
to get an IP again, but with bootp instead of dhcp. However, that is working
as well even if it usually takes a while (5-20 sec). (sometimes it is fast as
well)

Now the download of the menu.lst file should start via tftp from the switch's
TFTP server. That process starts, but has several retries and in 75% it is
successful after round about 5min to get the 495 byte from the TFTP and
display the menu.

Then the system is going via timeout 8 after 8 seconds to boot the default
configuration from the menu.lst file. Unfortunately again the try to get IP
from the DHCP server, a mass of ARP packages and finally silence. The monitor
show up the first line "Booting 'X4100'

root (nd)
 Filesystem type is tftp, using whole disk
kernel (nd)/PXE/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
"
and thats it. Nothing more, nothing else.

My config is grub-0.97.tar.gz with grub-0.97-nic_update-2.patch 
it was compiled with configure --enable-diskless --enable-pci-direct
--enable-e1000
the switch is configured to Gigabit full duplex.
'--enable-pci-direct' is necessary to get access to one of the four onboard
Intel Gigabit interfaces (may be because the system bus is PCI-X).

My own analysis is, that grub does only a bootp request, even if you
explicitely say dhcp in the menu.lst. May be that bootp is not as performant
as dhcp. On the other hand is dhcp based on dhcp. BTW: nothing changed if I
assign the IP fix via ifconfig in the menu.lst config file.

Why the system is loading the first file 'pxegrub' on very fast speed and the
much smaller 'menu.lst' file afterwards so slow?

Anyone has an idea???






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