[syslinux] ipappend with pxelinux

Ryan Lovett ryan at stat.Berkeley.EDU
Tue Apr 22 16:48:47 PDT 2003


On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 06:46:10AM +0200, Josef Siemes wrote:
> Ryan Lovett <ryan at stat.Berkeley.EDU> schrieb am 05.04.03 02:37:18:
> >  I have not been able to get the IPAPPEND option to successfully set the ip
> > parameters for a pxelinux install. I have
> 
> This needs the driver in the kernel, and Kernel Level IP config in the kernel.
> 
> You should see either the kernel parameter to be something with 'ip='
> (so pxelinux actually gave this info to the kernel), see the driver
> initialize, after this the kernel reporting it giving this IP to the driver.
> This all happens before any initrd is used, so if you want to set it from an
> initrd you need to get the IP address out of /proc/cmdline by yourself.

This worked fine, thanks! Perhaps the information about kernel level ip
configuration should go in syslinux.doc?

Ryan


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