[syslinux] Can this work?
Alexander Heinz
mailsanmich at gmx.li
Sun Jan 30 17:30:28 PST 2005
>>You need:
>>- DHCP server
>>- TFTP server
>>- pxelinux.0
>>- menu.c32 for the menu
>>- memdisk for booting floppy images
>>- chain.c32 for booting local devices
>>- sbm.cbt (comboot version of Smart Boot Manager) for booting from a
>>ATAPI-CDROM
> Yes, I have a DHCP server, a TFTP server, and I'm assuming the rest
> are downloadable from the internet. All my systems have ATAPI-CDROM
> drives, definatly. I'm spent an age looking on the net for a HOWTO
> document, but I have been unsuccesful. Can you help point me in the
> right direction?
All you need is the latest syslinux package to get started (pxelinux.0,
menu.c32, memdisk and chain.c32 are included). Get familiar with the
syslinux.cfg syntax. Read the files syslinux.doc, pxelinux.doc and
README.MENU.
Here are a few expamples:
LABEL fd
MENU LABEL Floppy A:
KERNEL chain.c32
append fd0
LABEL hda
MENU LABEL MBR of the 1st hard disk
KERNEL chain.c32
append hd0
LABEL flpimg
MENU LABEL dos floppy image
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=dosfloppy.ima
LABEL netlinux
MENU LABEL load Linux from network
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=initrd root=/dev/rd/0 vga=791
get http://fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/btmgr-3.7-1.cbt.zip and extract
sbm.cbt for booting from an ATAPI-CD-ROM
Cheers
Alex
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