[syslinux] PXELinux CFG file problem

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dyks, Axel (XL) wrote:
> 
> So while "pxelinux[.0]" is loaded from "boot-server", "pxelinux" itself
> is left without a valid ip-address (next-server) to continue from.
> 
> I don't know, if it would be possible for "pxelinux" to derive "next-server"
> from "boot-server", in case that "next-server" is empty.
> But perhaps the "boot-server" information is no longer available when
> "pxelinux" is executed, otherwise -- I guess -- hpa would have already
> implemented this.
> 

Well, what one can do is to violate the protocol (which the PXE stack
itself apparently does here) and so something like that... it might be
the right thing to do.

	-hpa