[syslinux] memdisk and iso

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/15/2013 10:33 AM, upen wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to boot a server via PXE with following configured for its PXE.
> 
> LABEL IMP
> MENU LABEL IMP
> LINUX memdisk
> INITRD linuxIso.iso
> APPEND iso
> 
> I haven't been able to get this work, probably only because of network
> speed. PXE server is on RHEL 5.8 and syslinux 5.x
> 
> While I was booting the server, I ran dstat on PXE server and saw the
> outgoing network speed was 400-500Bytes. So looks like there is limitation
> on speed via TFTP.
> 
> I am wondering if there is any way I can modify parameters to transfer it
> via NFS ? ISO is about 700MB. I have NFS services running on PXE that use
> for kickstarting redhat machines.
> 

Try lpxelinux.0 in the Syslinux 5.10 prereleases, it supports http.

	-hpa