[syslinux] Boot into operating system after PXE boot

[Bart Coninckx]

I see, but what you basically do, is organize the intelligence for this on the 
server-side. No way to accomplish this on client side? For your solution to 
take effect immediately, this requires a cronjob to take place every minute 
or so ....

On Friday 30 June 2006 13:24, Matt Hyclak wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 10:09:51AM +0000, Bart Coninckx enlightened us:
> > I would like to check with you all if the following is possible:
> >
> > I'd like to combine G4L (Ghost clone) with PXE (been done before) but in
> > such a way that an option in LDAP is checked after booting with PXE. If
> > it's set, a certain program is executed with certain parameters (G4L), if
> > not, the PC should continue to boot in it's installed operating system.
> >
> > Is the latter possible? If so, how do I go about to continue booting
> > after the PXE soft has loaded? I've seen it in a commercial product
> > (Zenworks Imaging by Novell), so it should be possible ...
>
> I currently accomplish this for Kickstarting by running a cron job on the
> tftp server that reads a database. If the "reinstall" flag is set, it
> creates the appropriate pxe config file to boot kickstart from the network
> with the right parameters. When the install is done, the flag is returned
> to "installed" and the cron job removes the machine-specific config file.
> The default config file does a localboot.
>
> Matt