[syslinux] Netboot and PXELINUX

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 5 12:59:36 PDT 2003


Peter Lister wrote:
>>I have just been informed that Netboot (http://netboot.sourceforge.net/) 
>>can be used to produce PXE boot ROMs.  I wonder if anyone has tried 
>>running this combination with PXELINUX?  This is obviously a really big 
>>deal... :)
> 
> 
> There appears to be no announcement to that effect on the netboot
> site, other than a general statement that PXE is one of the goals.
> Given that there was no reaction to HPA's comment, I assume that this
> was a false alarm.
> 

Well, I've looked at the actual netboot download, and the code there
seems to be much more complete than the one in Etherboot.  Perhaps the
Etherboot people could use some of that code?

	-hpa




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