[syslinux] One DHCP/PXE config for BIOS, EFI32, and EFI64 clients?

Steven Shiau steven at nchc.org.tw
Thu Sep 26 00:39:13 PDT 2013



On 09/26/2013 01:44 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> Yes; you can configure your DHCP server to hand out different values for
> the pxelinux.configfile option to specific clients, matching on MAC
> address or a variety of other conditions.  Of course, this means that
> the config file for that machine will need to know what firmware to
> expect and thus what path to set.
Hi Jeffrey,
Thanks. I think what the solution is as I mentioned in the thread beginning,
http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2013-September/020848.html
Or did I miss something?
My actual idea is, is that possible we could have an option, even with:
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option pxelinux.configfile "pxelinux.cfg/bios";
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this option still lets pxelinux still honor the rules:
pxelinux.cfg/01-88-99-aa-bb-cc-dd
pxelinux.cfg/C000025B
pxelinux.cfg/C000025
pxelinux.cfg/C00002
pxelinux.cfg/C0000
pxelinux.cfg/C000
pxelinux.cfg/C00
pxelinux.cfg/C0
pxelinux.cfg/C
pxelinux.cfg/default
If such an option exists, it will be very useful because one DHCP/PXE
config could for all BIOS, EFI32, and EFI64 clients.
Thanks in advance.

Steven.
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