[syslinux] pxelinux and syslinux configuration files
Shaya Potter
spotter at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Aug 28 12:05:35 PDT 2006
Shaya Potter wrote:
> Am I wrong to believe that pxelinux can't use syslinux configurtion
> files as is?
>
> I have a syslinux/isolinux setup that works fine in those environments,
> lets me boot a root file system based on different criteria.
>
> However, when I moved it over to pxelinux, i'm able to have it get an ip
> address over dhcp, fetch pxelinux.0 over tftp and seemingly fetch
> 'default' from /pxelinux.cfg/ (tftpd-hpa). However, it immediately
> fetches 'linux' (as in the kernel) from / (again tftpd-hpa) and doesn't
> seem to fetch my initrd at all.
>
> this is 2 problems.
>
> a) it doesn't give me a chance to select which configuration I want
> (even thought I have "PROMPT 1"
>
> b) it's not fetching the minirt
>
> this leads me to think that it's not seeing the 'default' and for some
> reason just fetching 'linux' as a last resort. Is this correct? any
> way to debug this with tftpd-hpa ?
never mind, it was a permission problem (as the 700 fat permission
carried over)
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