[syslinux] Question regarding PXELINUX

[Miller, Shao]

Good day Tim R.,

In regards to your question concerning avoiding the PXELINUX
"count-down" behaviour to find and use an appropriate config-file:

Please read syslinux/doc/rfc5071.txt, which describes DHCP options you
can set in order to explicitly instruct clients which config-file to
use.  In brief, the options are:

DHCP option 209: The path to the config-file for the client to use
DHCP option 210: A prefix which will be prepended in front of any
relative file paths that PXELINUX or COM32 modules will work with

As an example, if your DHCP handed out the following:

209: default
210: pxelinux.cfg/

Then the PXELINUX clients would attempt to download
pxelinux.cfg/default.

I hope that helps!

- Shao Miller