[syslinux] PXELINUX output 3.85 vs. 4.00

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Mike Coleman <tutufan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt at gmx.de> wrote:
>>> I was just wondering why this got changed, because i found the old
>>> output useful for "debugging" (e.g. finding typos in config file names).
>>
>> I did, too. That output make it pretty self-explanatory what's going on...
>>
> 
> I find the change interesting in several ways.  It's less output for a
> more normal end-user to see and question.  Watching it fetch the
> different files can still be done by watching the TFTP server.

That might not always be possible because the TFTP server could be
run by different people.

> I can't recall if there's a way to pass a command-line but it might be
> possible to have two versions of pxelinux.0, the primary that uses CR
> and an alternate that uses NL for more debugging purposes.

Could use a custom DHCP option to specify this behaviour, but that
seems like overkill. Compiling a customized pxelinux.0 is way easier.

Sebastian