[syslinux] gpxelinux feature request

Doug Scoular dscoular at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 15:19:12 PDT 2008


Hi All,

A while back there was some mention that gpxe may acquire the
ability to receive command-line parameters. I'd dearly love if
this could become a reality.

It would be fantastic if we could have a pxelinux menu config
as follows:

KERNEL gpxelinux.0
APPEND config http://someserver.net/gpxe-for-this-box.cfg

This would solve a huge number of our problems since we
don't have the ability to control our DHCP server configurations
to avoid the "breaking the infintie loop" issue. See:

http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining#breaking_the_infinite_loop

Is this the best forum to gently nudge in this direction or do I also
need to prod the etherboot good people too ?

I'm afraid I don't have the low level coding skills to contribute
much other than my heartfelt thanks for pxelinux and friends.

Cheers,

Doug

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