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

Andrew Stuart andrew at shopcusa.com
Fri Jul 18 15:25:51 PDT 2008


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

I suspect you mean: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html

Unless you know of another..

-A




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