[syslinux] Chainloading / Nested PXELINUX [SOLVED]

sandin deiloohay at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 3 20:49:42 PST 2010


seems obvious now, but one can appreciate the work that went into this...

--- On Fri, 12/3/10, msacks <ntwrkd at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: msacks <ntwrkd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Chainloading / Nested PXELINUX [SOLVED]
> To: "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 2:44 PM
> I was able to solve the problem with
> the following configuration:
> 
> label custom1
> MENU custom1
> kernel pxechain.com
> append ::custom1/pxelinux.0
> 
> label custom2
> MENU custom2
> kernel pxechain.com
> append ::custom2/pxelinux.0
> 
> configdir1/pxelinux.cfg/default
> configdir2/pxelinux.cfg/default
> 
> Then I dropped the custom pxelinux.0 files in their
> respective
> directories, confgdir1 and configdir2.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 16:03, Warren Turkal <wt at 8x8.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Part of this is due to the fact that the menu
> files use absolute paths and
> >> there isn't a convenient way to change the base
> path. The other part is that
> >> ubuntu now use vesamenu.c32 instead of the normal
> menu, and they don't seem
> >> to mix well.
> >
> > With regards to PXELINUX, the only absolute paths have
> a "::" (ie
> > "::file.ext", "10.0.0.1::file.ext") or are a URL that
> can be
> > interpreted in the current context (always
> > "tftp://10.0.0.1/pxelinux.0" and
> additionally running under gPXE/iPXE
> > "http://10.0.0.1/pxelinux.0").  A path of
> "/path/file.ext" is only
> > appended to the current path to generate a fully
> qualified path
> > (unlike all other variants in which this is an
> absolute path).
> >
> > vesamenu.c32 is menu.c32 enhanced with VESA support
> (and will still
> > drop to TUI mode like menu.c32 always does).  What do
> you mean by
> > "instead of the normal menu" and "they don't seem to
> mix well"?
> >
> > Also, what part of Ubuntu are you using and how are
> you using it?  I
> > thought as of 10.10 on all ISOs other than the mini
> ISOs, they used
> > ISOLINUX 4.01 and gfxboot.c32 with a display file and
> certain patches
> > that I think just got included into 4.03.  10.04 I
> believe still used
> > 3.63 with the gfxboot assembly patch.
> >
> > Using most distros with PXELINUX is often a challenge
> as they expect
> > local media in some way.  Some distros are completely
> based on
> > initrd/initramfs and are very easy to deal with.
> >
> > --
> > -Gene
> >
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