[syslinux] Return to text mode after menu.c32

[Giannis Roussos]

I have found this comboot module called pxechain: 
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2008-April/009795.html

The author says it can be used to boot OS installer images, which is 
pretty much what I want to do. I cannot find any documentation on it though.

Anyone has any info on that?

Thanks
Giannis


Giannis Roussos wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I am in the process of setting up a home boot server using pxelinux. I 
> have started creating a menu using menu.c32, and I want to add System 
> Rescue CD to that. Is there any way I can point PXE to load the 
> isolinux.cfg that comes with SystemRescueCD (I will now on refer to this 
> file simply as isolinux.cfg), but not in the "menu" mode? I want to do 
> that so all the information and boot options of SystemRescueCD are 
> available
> 
> So far the 2 options I have found out are:
> 1) Create a menu item that boots directly the default kernel of 
> SystemRescueCD. Repeat for each other boot option needed.
> 2) Modify isolinux.cfg to make it display a proper menu using menu.c32, 
> with proper labels etc. May need revision with newer version of 
> SystemRescueCD
> 
> I don't like any of the above options. I would just like to be able to 
> load isolinux.cfg as if it was the initial config file. I have tested it 
> by renaming to default and it works fine, exactly like booting from CD.
> 
> I think that what I need is to load the standard pxelinux binary 
> "kernel" with isolinux.cfg conf file,instead of the default. I tried 
> that but pxelinux.0 seems to ignore conf filename. Is there another 
> (possibly .c32) kernel I can use for this purpose?
> 
> Hope I made my problem clear
> Thank you in advance
> 
> Giannis
> 
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