[syslinux] Recursively loading pxelinux?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 27 12:25:40 PDT 2005


Carl Karsten wrote:
> 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)
> 

Not at this time.  I think now I know a way by which it is doable, but 
given recent breakage and my lack of time I haven't had any chance to 
work on it.

	-hpa




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