[syslinux] using pxelinux for booting of a any local disk

[H. Peter Anvin]

san jr wrote:
> I wanted to use pxelinux to boot windows or Linux that has been 
> installed on any local disk partition.
> (ie node is set to pxe, but the pxe reply is to get it to boot from one 
> of the OSs that was pre-installed on the node) .
> 
> I assume that I have to use chain.c32
> 

Yes, that would be chain.c32.

> Since pxelinux is based on syslinux which does not boot from ext2 disks, 
> is there a way to boot Linux from a specified local disk?

If you want to boot from an ext2/3 filesystem, just use extlinux.

	-hpa