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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andrew Stuart wrote:
> 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..
> 

That's the one.  I also put some code into the syslinux tree to build 
one from gPXE, but it's a little too big (3.5 MB) to put in binary form 
in the Syslinux distribution.  I made a branch in the git tree called 
"gpxeiso" for it.

	-hpa