[syslinux] pxelinux -> pxeboot load?

[Steve Finkelstein]

hpa was correct, I was successfully able to chainload pxeboot with
pxelinux after some tweaking to my tftp/dhcp server configurations.

Now after all the triumph, I get a blue screen of death once I
kickstart Linux after /sbin/loader comes into place... here's my
pxelinux.cfg/default if anyone has any suggestions;

PROMPT 1
DEFAULT freebsd
TIMEOUT 500
label freebsd
  kernel pxeboot.0
label redhat8
  kernel redhat8/vmlinuz
  append ks=nfs:192.168.0.8:/exports/kickstart/kickstart-rh8-72G.cfg
initrd=redhat8/initrd.img lang=en devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
ksdevice=eth0

On 11/27/05, Steve Finkelstein <stevefink at gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw someone enlist the options in a prior thread;  thought it might
> be a way to 'trick' pxelinux into emulating a FreeBSD bootstrap.  If
> you have any suggestions to chain the pxeboot loader, that would be
> great.  Thanks again.
>
> S.
>
> On 11/27/05, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> > 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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