[syslinux] Re: load pxelinux w/o PXE BIOS?

[Ludovic Drolez]

> I would like to load pxelinux as a second stage bootloader from a machine
> which does not have a PXE BIOS (namely, from a VMware guest machine) in
> order to perform an automated Linux installation. A boot floppy would

You can take a look at the Linbox Backup Server's files.
They have :
- a grub based boot loader with pxe support (revoboot.pxe)
- and an etherboot disk with PXE emulation which works with vmware

I use this daily to boot vmware in diskless mode.
You should read the pdf documentation to see how it works. You can use 
the files in the tarballs since nearly everything is under GPL.

http://www.linbox.com
ftp://ftp.linbox.com/pub/lbs

Cheers,

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