PXE hangs when booting up a workstation

  • 7002818
  • 25-Mar-2009
  • 30-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management Support Pack 2- ZfD6.5 SP2
Novell ZENworks 7 Desktop Management - ZfD7
Novell ZENworks Imaging
IBM ThinkPad T43
IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
IBM Lenovo z60m
Intel Desktop Board D945GTP 
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad R52

Situation

PXE hangs when booting up a workstation

Resolution

For ZDM7: fixed in ZDM 7 Support Pack 1 or newer. This can be obtained at Novelll Downloads
For ZDM6.5SP2: Fixed in Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management Support Pack 2 Interim Release 1 - see KB 3665027 "Updates to Novell ZENworks 6.5 Desktop Management" at Novell Support

Workaround: disable Hard Drive Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Additional Information

The cause of this issue is with the LINLD file.
On the computer screen the following text will be displayed

LINLD v0.97  Kernel command line:  mode=5  install=tftp://10.1.79.2/voot  rootimage=/root PROXYADDR=10.1.79.2  TFTPIP=10.1.79.2  tftptimeout=50  splash=silent  PXEBOOT=YES
Formerly known as TID# 10099097