[syslinux] PXELINUX, pxechain.com and Etherboot

Joyce Yu Joyce.Yu at Sun.COM
Wed May 13 14:38:37 PDT 2009


HPA,

Do you know where is the fixes in the gPXE? How should I port it to the 
Etherboot?

Thanks,
Joyce

On 05/13/09 01:46 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Joyce Yu wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone has tried to use pxechain with Etherboot? Here is my problem:
>>
>> The Etherboot client had no problem to get the list of install servers 
>> manual from the pxechain. But didn't matter which server was chosen, 
>> Etherboot client always tried to use the first server to do the 
>> installation.  Etherboot 5.4 was used.
>>
>> What the problem may be? PXEchain or Etherboot?
>>
>>     
>
> I seem to vaguely recall that Etherboot doesn't preserve changes to the
> in-memory copy of the DHCP packet.  gPXE fixes this, I believe.  Anyone
> remember?
>
> 	-hpa
>
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