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

[san jr]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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
>
I am confused about the relationship between pxlinux, syslinux and extlinux
Naive question:
   How do you tell the pxelinux config to use extlinux instead of syslinux?
    (recall I would like to use pxe to control how a client is booted.)

Thanks

sanjay