[syslinux] pxelinux web page question...

[H. Peter Anvin]

Erik Dykema wrote:
> 
>     I am curious as to the possibility of 'mtftp for the initial boot',
> which I assume to mean that you could use a different tftp server /
> daemon to grab the kernel & subsequent data off of.  Is this possible?
> If so, how would I configure it to make it work? This would really make
> my life easier.
>

No, it wouldn't.  This pretty much requires you to have the MTFTP server
on the same machine, which is completely useless in your application.

Trying to mess with this is pretty pointless, really.

>     This is important to me because I am not easily able to control
> which tftp server the DHCP server points to.  I could, however, setup my
> own tftp server (for example, tftpd-hpa) on a different machine that
> would be right.  I have gotten my machine (Dell PowerApp Web100) to grab
> pxelinux off the network, and then pxelinux complains about not having
> tsize, which makes me think that the tftp server that dhcp is pointing
> to sucks.

You need the DHCP server to send the next-server option.  There isn't
any other solution.

	-hpa