[syslinux] Availability of a variable of the TFTP server IP addressto be used in pxelinux.cfg/default

[Ferenc Wagner]

"STEFFENS, Michael" <Michael.STEFFENS at newellco.com> writes:

> Also for the information passed to the Linux OS via the APPEND in
> pxelinux.cfg/default I don't even know how/where these are
> passed/executed. I expect to find it somewhere in the INITRD of the
> distributions but it could be also in the compressed kernel file which I
> simply don't know.
>
> Well, as you might have read in the lines above I try to avoid using
> IPAPPEND as it makes the whole thing quite complex for a novice. If
> there's nothing else that would be the way to go then but... Am I really
> the only one having the same boot images deployed to many different
> PXE/TFTP servers? How are others passing PXE/TFTP server specific
> information to the PXE bootable OS? Especially when I read in the docs
> that the usage of IPAPPEND is not recommended.

The solution detailed at
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Comboot_API wasn't accepted.
But that page mentions the -dhcpinfo option of linux.c32, which is
available in the stock binaries.
-- 
Cheers,
Feri.