[syslinux] Chaining from PXELinux to some other boot loader

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 28 21:29:14 PST 2006


behrad at rayavaran.com wrote:
> 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.
> 

As far as (3) is concerned, you just have to pass "keeppxe" to memdisk.

	-hpa




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