[syslinux] Chaining from PXELinux to some other boot loader

[behrad at rayavaran.com]

There are a few reasons, maybe there are solutions too:

When you load a floppy disk image (DOS), you have a few utilities, which makes it possible to do Pre-OS tasks. I couldn't find any solution by MemDisk DOS floppy images:

	1) PBOOT.exe: to continue booting to local disk from DOS (as a Pre-OS)
	2) BPPatch.exe: make it possible to patch a text file (a DOS Batch file) by DHCP and PXE environmental parameters.
	3) PXE and UNDI stacks are available in DOS and so you can use UNDI NDIS drivers and also tftp through PXE stack. It seems that it is not available in Memdisk loaded floppies.


PBOOT V2.01 - Pre-OS Local-Boot Utility
Copyright (c) 3Com Corporation 1998-2000. All rights reserved.
Usage: PBOOT [/?] [/nologo] [/pboot | /reboot | /shutdown]
    /?        - help
    /nologo   - turn off logo
    /pboot    - exit Pre-OS environment and boot from local media
    /reboot   - reboot system
    /shutdown - power off system



BOOTP Patch v1.6
(C) Copyright 1994-2000 Lanworks Technologies Co.
No file name specified.
Options:
 /v - verbose mode
 /s - show values
 /i - use space delimiter in IP numbers


-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Geert Stappers
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 12:07 AM
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Chaining from PXELinux to some other boot loader

Op 27-11-2006 om 12:44 schreef behrad at rayavaran.com:
> Hi
> 
> I am using 3COM MBAUTIL PXE.mnu and floppy images.
> I have problem chaining from pxelinux.0 to 3com pxe.0 (pxe.mnu).
> 
> Is there any way to replace pxelinux.0 by pxe.mnu in the memory as if 
> pxe.mnu is loaded in the first step?

For what it is worth: I wonder has "MBA UTIL" has that pxelinux with menus doesn't have ...


Cheers
Geert Stappers

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