[syslinux] Building a http query string including SMBIOS Serial Number to load a specific kernel

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/19/16 12:07, Leandro Becker via Syslinux wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> There is a way to get the system serial number from SMBIOS and pass it
> as HTTP query string to get the kernel and initrd?
> Something like this:
> 
> LABEL OS Download
>       MENU LABEL Clonezilla
>       MENU INDENT 1
>       KERNEL http://192.168.10.10/kernel.php?type=kernel (
> http://myserver/kernel.php?SN=SMBIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER&type=kernel
> )&SN=SMBIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER
>       APPEND
> initrd=http://192.168.10.10/kernel.php?type=initrd&SN=SMBIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER
> boot=live ...
> 
> I found that SYSAPPEND is able to get info from SMBIOS, but there is a
> way to accomplish what I'm trying to do, i.e. replace
> SMBIOS_SERIAL_NUMBER somehow with the real serial number?
> Maybe Menu.c32 have a feature to do something like this?
> 

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	-hpa