[syslinux] Pre-PXE loader

[H. Peter Anvin]

Roger Binns wrote:
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> I am frequently in a situation where I have a machine sitting behind NAT
> which means it doesn't see the real network DHCP server and PXE
> parameters.  Two examples:
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>  * Using VirtualBox with default NAT networking (bridging is tedious)
>  * A machine that normally uses wireless but is being NAT'ed to real
> network for OS installation
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> I have been looking for and failed to find some sort of booting solution
> that would try to do DHCP, let me manually enter/override network and
> PXE configuration then proceed to do a PXE boot.  I would need to be
> able to boot this solution via PXE itself (for VirtualBox) or by CD.
> 
> I couldn't see how to do interactive input with gpxe and pxe/syslinux
> seems to have most of the pieces in place but appears to need more code
> written.
> 

Hi there,

You should be able to use gPXE as the ROM-level loader with static 
configuration to bootstrap PXELINUX.

	-hpa