[syslinux] Recursively loading pxelinux?

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Mon Jun 27 09:15:46 PDT 2005


Anderson, Ian wrote:
> This may seem to be an odd request, but here it goes:
> 
> I would like to be able to recursively load pxelinux. Simple reason being
> that many useful mini distro's now use it (PXES, Recovery is Possible,
> Fedora Anaconda, my own homebrew setup program, unattended.sf.net, etc), and
> I would like to be able have drop in upgradabily for those distro's.  The
> idea being I can create a master menu and then point to and load the native
> menu for each of those distro's.  I think it is possible using the native
> PXE menu support, but I would like to confirm if it is possible with
> pxelinux.
> 

Instead of realoading pxelinux.0, isn't there a way to chain the "default" config 
files?  Or maybe I am thinking of submenus in menu32.com.

I like the idea of being ablte to point to an unaltered default in some other dir 
(like the loop mounted CD image)

Carl K




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