[syslinux] ISOLinux, menu.c32 and PXE handoff?

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bishop wrote:
> 
> My current plan involves a boot CD which can hand off to
> pxeboot.me.org::/pxelinux.0
> .  Does isolinux (or syslinux if that's more applicable) allow a
> host::boot.0 kind of reference, and can a syslinux CD booting on the machine
> provide the required glue to get this machine access to the resources on the
> pxe server?  If so, can someone provide me an example of how it'd be set up
> in the .cfg ?
> 

No, it doesn't, but what you *can* do is have a floppy or CD with gPXE 
on it, see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ -- there is also a CD with all 
the drivers floating around, but I can't remember where.

> In a nearly-related question, does menu.c32 allow machine::pxelinux.0
> redirection in the sense that pxelinux.0 does?  I can't get it go, and not
> for lack of trying!

It does, but only when running on top of pxelinux.0.

	-hpa