[syslinux] memdisk and iso

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/05/2013 02:34 PM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:18 PM, upen <upendra.gandhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry to bring this old thread up. I saw the note on the release of
>> syslinux-5.10 which I have just finished installing. I would like some help
>> here with configuration. I can move the iso into webserver's root directory
>> but what should the configuration below be changed to load the iso via http?
>>
>> LABEL dell
>> MENU LABEL dell
>> LINUX memdisk
>> INITRD dell.iso
>> APPEND iso
>>
>> I have the lpxelinux.0 in the tftp root directory as well.
> 
> 1) change to useing lpxelinux.0 rather than pxelinux.0
> 
> 2) change the INITRD line like:
> INITRD http://host.to.use.local/path/to/dell.iso
> 

I think he wants to use http for the configuration file as well, in
which case you have to set the path prefix via DHCP option 210.

We may want to find some way to make that more convenient, but I'm not
really sure how to do that cleanly (other than using the
pxelinux-options tool, of course.)

	-hpa