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

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sun Jan 29 15:20:42 PST 2006


san jr wrote:
>>
> I am confused about the relationship between pxlinux, syslinux and extlinux

SYSLINUX is a package which contains SYSLINUX (which probably should be 
renamed FATLINUX), PXELINUX, ISOLINUX, and EXTLINUX, as well as MEMDISK 
and the com32 utilities.

> 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.)

Use chain.c32 to load extlinux from a partition.

	-hpa




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