[syslinux] PXE-Linux like default configuration file selection with syslinux?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 07:08:21 PDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Sven Geggus via Syslinux
<syslinux at zytor.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when booting via pxelinux I can change the image to be booted based on
> client uuid, and MAC-Adresses.
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX#Configuration
>
> Now when using syslinux I would like to be able to also do this as I like to
> use one usb flash-drive for booting multiple machines.
>
> Is this possible or impossible by design because syslinux always uses
> syslinux.cfg?

In a sense.  You'll need a COM32 to be the selector rather than the
core Syslinux binary itself.  The initial config will run the selector
and the selector would choose the next configuration.  See also
ifcpu.c32 and the like.

-- 
-Gene


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