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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Bishop wrote:
> 
> The gPXE disk (which offers an 'all-drivers' option!) seems to boot.  The
> big win would be if I could tack a machine::pxelinux.0 into an APPEND on the
> isolinux.cfg on that gPXE iso.
> 
   [...]
> 
> I suspect I've made a bone-head noob error here, but no amount of pondering
> and permutation seems to get me that last inch.  It looks like pxelinux.0 is
> running menu.c32, so I'm glad to hear I can maybe get a menu system and a
> handoff to choochoo, but don't spend too much time on it -- I'd rather see
> features and fixes go into the product than waste your time in support.
> 
> Thanks for both your time, so far, and I still hope I'm not too much of a
> bother!
> 

The noob error is the following: chainloading a .0 or even a 
configuration file doesn't set a prefix; the prefix is still what is 
delivered from the DHCP server.  Right now there isn't any way to 
override that (other than changing the source code.)

	-hpa