[syslinux] using pxelinux for booting of a any local disk
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sat Jan 28 00:49:22 PST 2006
san jr wrote:
> I wanted to use pxelinux to boot windows or Linux that has been
> installed on any local disk partition.
> (ie node is set to pxe, but the pxe reply is to get it to boot from one
> of the OSs that was pre-installed on the node) .
>
> I assume that I have to use chain.c32
>
Yes, that would be chain.c32.
> Since pxelinux is based on syslinux which does not boot from ext2 disks,
> is there a way to boot Linux from a specified local disk?
If you want to boot from an ext2/3 filesystem, just use extlinux.
-hpa
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