[syslinux] Etherboot & pxelinux (was: thank you)

[Giulio Orsero]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:30:25 +0100, Josef Siemes <jsiemes at web.de> wrote:


>- Configuration directly burned into the rom - no easy way to 'just change' the configuration.
If nic is pxe you can avoid this by downloading etherboot-rom via network.
The other problems you listed remain.

>BTW, would it really be possible to have some extension for etherboot
>to support PXE booting (e.g. via pxelinux)? So could etherboot create
>some PXE stack that other bootloaders would use? Did anybody already
They don't like pxe, so they did the other way around (pxe boot etherboot).

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