[syslinux] Syslinux 4.10-pre20

[Geert Stappers]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:12:41PM -0700, Shantanu Gadgil wrote:
> On Thu, 5/31/12, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Any way you would be able to test downloading over http
> > instead of tftp
> > with -pre22?
> 
> By testing HTTP download you mean the vmlinuz and initrd (OS
> installation) over HTTP, right? Something like the following
> snippet. (and you are not talking about pxelinux.0 download right?)

Correct. BootROM gets pxelinux.0 over TFTP.
pxelinux.0 gets kernel and initrd over HTTP.

> I have assumed so far that the only way that the pxelinux.0 file is
> retrieved (by the client's PXE ROM) is using TFTP (and TFTP only!)
> 
> Is that correct?

A while ago it was correct. Syslinux did grew meanwhile.
The '(and TFTP only!)' is gone  :-)


> --- snip ---
> label   my_http_install
> menu label MY_HTTP INSTALL
> kernel http://.../.../../MY_DISC/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> initrd http://.../.../../MY_DISC/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> append lang=en_US keymap=us ip=dhcp method=http://.../.../../MY_DISC/
> --- snip ---
> 

Snippet looks fine.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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