[syslinux] Re: Q: passing DHCP options to the booted linux-kernel?

[Ph. Marek]

> > What I didn't find was how to specify the interface these settings apply
> > - If a machine has several network cards, the one booted from may not be
> > eth0, and AFAIK the kernel uses the parameter on eth0.
> >
> > But maybe there's a trick I've missed up to now. Possibly giving the PCI
> > id (or even better, PCI location) to the kernel to specify the interface?
>
> What I might be able to do is to add an option to pass the hardware
> address to the kernel, which would specify the interface.  The PCI ID
> isn't readily available; heck, it might not *exist*.
That would be perfect, especially, if the kernel understood this value too :-)

Thanks a lot, I'll be hoping for that.
If you've got a patch for something around 2.4.20 I'm ready to test. (I'll 
need a newer pxelinux too, I suppose).


Regards,

Phil