H. J. Lu
2002-Sep-26 03:57 UTC
[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX [A small change for pxelinux]
It looks like someone else also has the same problem: http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-September/000848.html I don't know much about Intel i386 asm. Otherwise, I will send a patch :-). H.J. ----- Forwarded message from "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon.org> ----- I am using pxelinux to do RedHat kickstart install. I ran into a problem. Both pxelinux and kickstart use filename "xxx" in /etc/dhcpd.conf for different purposes. Naturally, they won't work together. I was wondering if a small change to pxelinux could be made. That is if the filename got from DHCP ends with a `/', pxelinux will append "pxelinux.0" to it. That means if filename "/tftpboot/" pxelinux will try "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0". Thanks. H.J. ----- End forwarded message -----
H. Peter Anvin
2002-Sep-26 05:56 UTC
[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX [A small change for pxelinux]
H. J. Lu wrote:> It looks like someone else also has the same problem: > > http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/syslinux/2002-September/000848.html > > I don't know much about Intel i386 asm. Otherwise, I will send a > patch :-). > > ----- Forwarded message from "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon.org> ----- > I am using pxelinux to do RedHat kickstart install. I ran into a > problem. Both pxelinux and kickstart use > > filename "xxx" > > in /etc/dhcpd.conf for different purposes. Naturally, they won't work > together. I was wondering if a small change to pxelinux could be made. > That is if the filename got from DHCP ends with a `/', pxelinux will > append "pxelinux.0" to it. That means if > > filename "/tftpboot/" > > pxelinux will try "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0". >You wouldn't be able to boot -- this filename isn't used by PXELINUX, it's used by the network boot PROM to know what to boot from. I believe you can override the kickstart filename by providing: append ks=<directory> in the PXELINUX config file. (For what it's worth, the way Kickstart uses the filename is nonstandard.) -hpa
Josef Siemes
2002-Sep-26 18:12 UTC
[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX [A small change for pxelinux]
Hi, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> schrieb am 26.09.02 20:01:49:> Anyone happens to know which version of tftp-hpa that was? atftp is > probably better handing huge amounts of clients, but tftp-hpa should > definitely handle a lot more than 64.it does handle a lot more, even when started from inetd. I had no problem booting >100 clients at one time, and this was with tftp-hpa-0.1x (17?). Maybe this also depends on the inetd used? Some inetd's limit the number of started processes ... Regards, Josef ______________________________________________________________________________ Jetzt testen fur 1 Euro! Ihr All-in-one-Paket! https://digitaledienste.web.de/Club/?mc=021106
H. Peter Anvin
2002-Sep-27 04:49 UTC
[syslinux] RedHat kickstart with PXELINUX [A small change for pxelinux]
H. J. Lu wrote:> > Ok, I used pxe > > http://www.kano.org.uk/projects/pxe/ > > I made a few changes and created a rpm. I am enclosing the source rpm > here. Hope it is ok. >Sending large binaries to a mailing list is usually considered antisocial. I suspect it will be caught by the spam filter on the list in which case I'll kill it. -hpa