[syslinux] memdisk and iso

upen upendra.gandhi at gmail.com
Wed May 15 13:12:00 PDT 2013


Okay. Wonder what it takes to go with ipxelinux.0 as I don't want to
disturb existing setup. I can do syslinux-5.10 as I know what it will take
to upgrade it. I will look into it. Thank you.


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:10 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>


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upen,
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