[syslinux] Pre-PXE loader

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> writes:
> 
>> You should be able to use gPXE as the ROM-level loader with static 
>> configuration to bootstrap PXELINUX.
> 
> I tried something like this a couple of days ago.  The DHCP server in
> QEMU's user network stack can't be configured to pass the boot file
> name.

I think the latest QEMU (possibly only the SVN version) can do this.

>  Unfortunately, fiddling with DEFAULT_BOOTFILE in
> gpxe/src/Config didn't have any effect at all, and grepping for this
> macro in the code didn't return anything either.  I ended up patching
> gpxe/src/usr/autoboot.c, which works, but leaves me wondering whether
> setting DEFAULT_BOOTFILE should have worked or not...

I thought it should.  I believe the *intent* is that gPXE will have an 
embedded command-line script to control its behaviour, but it's not 
implemented yet.

	-hpa