[syslinux] troubleshoot DHCP

Ercolino de spiacico bellocarico at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 16 06:42:15 PST 2010


Perhaps a dhcpinfo.c32 would do ;-)

Regards


> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:07, Ercolino de spiacico
> <bellocarico at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, is there any way to display information in the menu.c32 such as IP address and
> > option received from DHCP server?
> 
> At this time, no.  Altering vesamenu.c32/menu.32 to be able to present
> that information is possible.  It would probably be easier at this
> time to create another COM32 module that displays this information.
> 
> With my work on a PXE Chainload COM32 module, I already have some code
> collected for this purpose as I'm using it to visually debug the data
> I'm examining/creating.  Not all of the data is in a nice format but
> it's all there if you know how to interpret the data (integer, dotted
> decimal, string, etc) from hex bytes.  It might be better to have a
> module that displays environment information regardless of the variant
> showing 1-3 lines of info normally and more with a verbose argument..
> 
> That said, hdt.c32 will currently present some of this information.
> 




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