[syslinux] gpxelinux.0 and slow HTTP performance on VMware ESX VM

syslinux at schlomo.schapiro.org syslinux at schlomo.schapiro.org
Thu Jun 30 12:00:03 PDT 2011


Hi,

On 30/06/11 20:44, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Thanks, I was not aware of this fork. Are there any plans to build an
>> > ipxelinux.0 that is based on ipxe?
>> > 
> We'll either switch to iPXE or drop this option... it's not clear to me
> it's needed anymore.  I was hoping for a formal release of iPXE first,
> but I'm not sure that will happen.

actually I was already wondering. If the only thing I really need is
vesamenu.c32, why use *pxelinux.0 and not ipxe directly with vesamenu?

Are there any benefits to using pxelinux to load vesamenu?

I also was not able to find any info on the web about this question...

Kind Regards,
Schlomo




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