[syslinux] Chaining from PXELinux to some other boot loader

[Geert Stappers]

Op 29-11-2006 om 08:11 schreef behrad at rayavaran.com:
> reply below the question:
> > For what it is worth:
> >  I wonder what has "MBA UTIL" has that pxelinux with menus doesn't have ...
>
> 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
It's called "localboot 0" in PXELINUX.

>     /reboot   - reboot system
>     /shutdown - power off system

Can be down in COM32 and might be allready be down ...


> 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


Seems a tool that is needed when the DHCP server can't be
reconfigured. (It might be a DHCP server (or BOOTP server))



Geert Stappers
In another plea to reply below the text ...