[syslinux] PXELINUX v. bpbatch

[Egan Ford]

PXELINUX with MEMDISK can boot DOS.  I used bpbatch for sometime.  It's
a superset of pxelinux functionality.  But it is not open source (you
get no source).  I like that it had a scripting language, image install
(1024 cylinder limit) and could boot DOS.  I think that MEMDISK's dos
support is better however.  I have had less problems with it (e.g.
flashing BIOSes with it).

PXELINUX is also actively developed bpbatch is not.  Rembo wants you
sell you their commercial solution.

Since PXELINUX added localboot support we dropped using bpbatch.

Another solution to consider is pxegrub.  It's a general purpose boot
manager, however it does not use UNDI so you have to build images for
each type of NIC.  I am considering using pxegrub so that I can have
multiple OSes on a single box and remotely choose what to boot, however
it will need to support UNDI.  Perhaps pxelinux will have grub like
features someday.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-admin at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-admin at zytor.com] On Behalf Of John Poltorak
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:13 AM
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] PXELINUX v. bpbatch
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> What is the difference between PXELINUX and bpbatch ?
> 
> AFAICT, bpbatch doe not require a TFTP server which supports the 
> 'tsize' option. So in the absence of such a server, I may need to 
> explore bpbatch...  It seems that bpbatch can be used to 
> remotely boot 
> DOS. Can PXELINUX also do this?
> 
> 
> -- 
> John
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