[syslinux] pxelinux fron Floppy disk?

[Seth Kurtzberg]

This is quite true.  I made something very similar work recently.  It was 
with PowerPC hardware, so the boot ROM code was different, but the principle 
is exactly the same.  This particular boot PROM, in fact, was worse than 
anything you should need to deal with in a "normal" situation, because it was 
homegrown (not by me) and its DHCP compliance was worse than the broken DHCP 
implementations I've dealt with in more mainline hardware.

If anyone wants to get into even more gory details, contact me off list.  
Peter's summary is excellent.  I hadn't thought of using the chaining 
solution; I'm going to give that a try.

On Monday 08 April 2002 03:24 am, you wrote:
> > This is, however, a different and incompatible solution.
>
> Different, certainly. As you note, pxelinux requires PXE; so when PXE
> isn't available, something else is needed for net booting. The config,
> kernel and initrd must be represented twice on the server.
>
> But please would you explain "incompatible"? DHCP allows one to use VCIs
> to have multiple configurations for different clients, and ISC DHCP v3
> has  a tolerable implementation which allows Etherboot and pxelinux can
> coexist on a network, whether on the same or seprate servers. Of course,
> one should use hpa-tftp to cope with the broken PXE code we are all
> forced to use until a decent open-source PXE comes along.
>
> Of course, if Mr Geggus finds that Etherboot works nicely on his non-PXE
> nics, he *can* achieve identical configuration for all his workstations
> by chaining Etherboot on his PXE systems (Marty Connor's howto at
> www.ltsp.org has the details).
>
>
>
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