[syslinux] pxelinux : filenames without prefix

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jun 20 07:16:50 PDT 2005


Martin Walter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying with 3.09 to use filenames without prefix in the following manner:
> 
> dhcp.conf:
>     ...
>     filename "/a/pxelinux.0";
>     ...
> 
> default:
>     ...
>     kernel ::/test/vmlinuz-smp
>     append initrd=::/test/initrd-smp.gz
>     ...
> 
> With ethereal I see that the kernel is requested as expected. But the
> initrd is requested as /a/test/initrd-smp.gz .
> 

Interesting.  That's a bug, and an odd one.

> 
> - PXELINUX: Support changing the default server and boot file prefix?
> 
> - Support loading a new configuration file.
> 
> 
> Is there any forecast when these features are available?
> 

No.

	-hpa




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