PXE Booting issues ESXi 5.5.0

[shaka]

Trying to get ESXi 5.5 to PXE boot and running into issues.  Receiving the message "Initial menu has no label entries" when I include the following in pxelinux.cfg file.

default esx-5.5/menu.c32

menu title ESXi 5.5.0 Installer

Label install

menu label ESXi 5.5.0

kernel esx-5.5/mboot.c32

append -c esx-5.5/boot.cfg

[crawfordm]

Are you trying to use PXE boot for Autodeploy or you trying some type of custom install via PXE boot?

[zXi_Gamer]

Can you do a cat on esx-5.5/menu.c32 and esx-5.5/mboot.c32 and post the output

[shaka]

I am not using Auto Deploy.  I am using an internal Kickstart server to do the build.

[shaka]

When I try to cat the files in putty it just throws garbage back to me but I am guessing you are looking to see what version of syslinux I am using.  I downloaded version 3.86 of syslinux and took the mboot.c32 and mboot.c32 from the com32 folder.

When I modify the pxelinux.cfg/default file to:

default install

label install

kernel esx-5.5/mboot.c32

append -c esx-5.5/boot.cfg

I get the error:

Loading -c....failed!

No files found!

The boot.cfg file has all the right permissions and so do the rest of the files.  I tried the prefix command in the boot.cfg but thought maybe that was not working and put the full path to each file in the boot.cfg.  No luck still.

[shaka · Accepted solution]

I was able to resolve my issue.  It turns out the pxelinux.0 file that we have on our kickstart server is old and what not compatible with mboot.c32 and menu.c32.

[mikedalton]

How did you manage to upgrade pxelinux.0 then?

[shaka]

I copied it from a newer version of selinux.