[syslinux] pxelinux -> pxeboot load?
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Sun Nov 27 13:26:52 PST 2005
Cristi Mitrana wrote:
>
>>default freebsd
>>label freebsd
>> kernel pxeboot.0
>> append ramdisk_size=100000 network load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0
>> initrd=pxeboot vga=788 root=/dev/ram
>
>
> This is not going to work because pxeboot is the freebsd's equivalent
> of pxelinux,
> it's just gets loaded by a PXE compabible card and then takes over the boot,
> in your case loads the boot/loader.rc configuration file , in pxelinux
> case it loads a pxelinux.cfg/default (as a last resort). So pxeboot is
> not a valid 'kernel' image that pxelinux can boot.
>
That's not true; PXELINUX can chain-load another PXE NBP. However, the
options that he's been listing after it are Linux options and make no sense.
-hpa
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