[syslinux] pxelinux internals

pankaj takawale pankaj_takawale at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 13 08:16:26 PST 2006


Here is my understanding about pxelinux:

- it is proxy dhcp server, so it must be telling
PXEClient boot file name (i.e. pxelinux.0)
-once pxelinux.0 starts running at client side, it
reads pxelinux.cfg/AppropriateConfigClientFile
- then pxelinux.0 image (say initrd.img) with the help
of memdisk (memdisk is just used as a RAM disk driver)

Is it correct?

I want to boot Windows PE 2.0 from pxelinux.
I was trying to boot pxeboot.0 (wrenamed pxeboot.n12 -
indows pe network boot program) using pxelinux.
i tried following configurations but failed:

1. kernel boot/pxeboot.0
   initrd=somegarbage kepxe

2. kernel memdisk
   initrd=boot\pxeboot.0 kepxe

Can someone please advice?




 
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