[syslinux] gPxe functionality in pxelinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Forwarded to include the etherboot-developers mailing list, since this
is gPXE core functionality:

Bryan Seitz wrote:
>    I have an interesting situation where I am loading gpxelinux.0 v3.72 from pxelinux.0 ( older ).  I have a stanza 
> that I use after loading gpxelinux such as :
> 
> ---
> 
> label pxelinux.new
>   kernel pxelinux.new.0
> 
> label recovery.http
>   kernel http://kickstart/pxelinux.new/vmlinuz-ramdisk
>   append initrd=http://kickstart/pxelinux.new/ramdisk.img.gz ramdisk_size=358400 ramdisk_blocksize=1024 root=/dev/ram0 mem=16G action=recovery
> 
> ---
> 
> This does not work however if I put the FQDN of the kickstart server ( There are a few per location ), it works fine.  Is there any way to get
> it to honor the 'domain-name' setting from DHCP and do a dns search like the libc resolver does for resolv.conf ?
> 
> Or implement HTTP redirection support in the http module?
>