[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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