Package: debian-installer Severity: normal The netboot.tar.gz tarball has symlinks at the top level from pxelinux.0 to debian-installer/$ARCH/pxelinux.0 and pxelinux.cfg to debian-installer/$ARCH/pxelinux.cfg This causes a problem is more than one arch netboot is installed, or if the Ubuntu netboot tarball is installed, since the symlinks trample on each other.
The simplest way to avoid this when setting up a multi-arch/distro boot server is to ignore the top-level symlinks, and set the bootfile name in the DHCP/PXE config to include the directory, so instead of using a filename pxelinux.0, use the filename debian-installer/$ARCH/pxelinux.0 PXE ROMs are bright enough to spot and use the prefixed directory, so they continue to download files from there; pxelinux.cfg is found, no problem. The problem occurs with all of the boot screens, etc, whose paths inside pxelinux.cfg already include the debian-installer/$ARCH/ prefix. The PXE ROM adds the path again, and tries to tftp eg. debian-installer/$ARCH/debian-installer/$ARCH/boot-screens/splash.png The simplest way to fix this, is to add a symlink in the netboot tarball from debian-installer/$ARCH/debian-installer to ../../debian-installer. This is completely backwards compatible, it doesn't affect the majority who continue to rely on the top-level symlinks and a simple DHCP filenname config, but it does allow more complex configurations to work without manually making the link. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
