[syslinux] ipappend with pxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ryan Lovett wrote:
> 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?
> 

No, it definitely shouldn't.  This isn't generic Linux documentation...
if it was, I'd never do anything else.

However, if someone is willing to make a webpage I'd consider making it
available.

	-hpa