[syslinux] Naive newbie question: HTTP

[H. Peter Anvin]

Doug Scoular wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this is a crushingly dumb question... but would
> it be possible for pxelinux.0 to download it's kernel and
> initrd images via HTTP ?
> 

No.  The reason is that the way PXE is designed it would be a major 
undertaking to support TCP -- you have to write a full IP stack to put 
on top of it.

There is a version of Etherboot which operates on top of the PXE UNDI 
Ethernet driver; it does support HTTP.

	-hpa