[Bug 1385069] Re: Netboot installer appears broken in utopic

[yoshi314]

I can give it a shot in a few days. Loading older pxelinux and pointing
it to current configs seems to resolve the issue.


#!ipxe

  dhcp
  set 210:string http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
# chain ${210:string}pxelinux.0
  chain http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/pxelinux.0


The vesamenu.c32 cannot be loaded due to incompatibility, so there is only text-mode menu prompt from pxelinux. But system is installable this way.

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => In Progress

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Title:
  Netboot installer appears broken in utopic

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  i boot ubuntu installer through iPXE like so :

  #!ipxe
  dhcp

  set 210:string http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
  chain ${210:string}pxelinux.0

  
  This worked perfectly with trusty, fails on utopic due to "cannot load ldlinux.c32" error (file is present on the server). On both architectures. 

  My take is that it's a pxelinux bug, although i found reports on it on
  other pxelinux versions, and not this one.

  Steps to reproduce

  - build ipxe from source with make EMBED=menu ; where menu contains the aforementioned content
  - boot in qemu  (qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel bin/ipxe.lkrn ) , obseve the problem
  - s/utopic/trusty/g 
  - rebuild ipxe
  - observe correct boot in qemu

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