[syslinux] pxelinux macappend

Scott Mewett mewett at cisco.com
Thu Jun 9 08:11:53 PDT 2005


perfect, thanks.

Google kept returning references to ipappend that must have been from
old versions of the syslinux.doc.

next time I'll just check the latest version of the docs.

Thanks much.

Scott



On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 05:52 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> Scott Mewett wrote:
> 
> >What I'm thinking is, if pxelinux was able to pass into the kernel the
> >mac address of the booting interface, I could modify anaconda to support
> >something like ksdevice=<macaddress>. Then regardless of the probe
> >order, or how many interfaces had a link, I would always know which was
> >the right interface to kickstart with.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Scott
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> putting 'IPAPPEND 2' in your config does it,
> see BOOTIF below.
> 
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n81 root=/dev/nfs 
> nfsroot=192.168.42.1:/nfshost/truck 
> nfsaddrs=192.168.42.100:192.168.42.1:192.168.42.1:255.255.255.0:soekris:eth0 
> panic=5 initrd=initrd-2.6.12-rc6-mm1-soekris-v1.img 
> BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz-2.6.12-rc6-mm1-soekris-v1 
> *BOOTIF=01-00-00-24-c2-46-c8* 2.6.12-rc6-mm1-soekris-v1




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