[syslinux] Local boot problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Pawel Oleksik wrote:
>>It can be done using comboot, but it's admittedly a bit clumsy (and not
>>very well debugged yet.)
> 
> 
> Bad news! I could resign asking a scheduler, but booting from a pointed device
> is pivotal.
> 
> I thought about such a bypass. It is possible to tell lilo which image(label)
> it should load (lilo -R <label> does this). So, lilo installed in MBR could be
> the main bootloader and pxelinux could be used for accesing network and
> reading configurations.
> It is not an elegant solution, however, it could works.
> 

A better idea would just to have your kernel and initrd for the Linux
installation on the server.

Anyway, debating the relative importance of this back and forth and back
and forth is a good way to make sure I *won't* have the time to just do
it...

	-hpa