Syslinux - Feb 2008 - keeppxe and using a linux vmlinuz/initrd

Hello,

Has anyone thought about how one could use the "keeppxe" option with a
vmlinuz/initrd?

It would allow one to boot this combination, and if possible the linux
kernel/initrd (assuming we have busybox in there) would not have to run udhcp
and instead leverage what pxe stack information is loaded.  The problem is I
don't know of any PXE/UNDI linux utilities to look at the pxe information. 
I'm curious how a dos image accesses this information.

Thanks for any insight and sorry if I'm way off base in thinking of being
able to use keeppxe.

-cdm

Maestas, Christopher Daniel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone thought about how one could use the "keeppxe" option
with a vmlinuz/initrd?
> 
> It would allow one to boot this combination, and if possible the linux
kernel/initrd (assuming we have busybox in there) would not have to run udhcp
and instead leverage what pxe stack information is loaded.  The problem is I
don't know of any PXE/UNDI linux utilities to look at the pxe information. 
I'm curious how a dos image accesses this information.
> 
> Thanks for any insight and sorry if I'm way off base in thinking of
being able to use keeppxe.
The old Intel "Linux PXE SDK" has some patches for this... they're
really quite ugly and were never integrated.

	-hpa

Hello cdm,

* Maestas, Christopher Daniel <cdmaest at sandia.gov> [20080221
20:10]:
> Has anyone thought about how one could use the "keeppxe" option
with a vmlinuz/initrd?
> 
> It would allow one to boot this combination, and if possible the linux
kernel/initrd (assuming we have busybox in there) would not have to run udhcp
and instead leverage what pxe stack information is loaded.  The problem is I
don't know of any PXE/UNDI linux utilities to look at the pxe information. 
I'm curious how a dos image accesses this information.
> 
> Thanks for any insight and sorry if I'm way off base in thinking of
being able to use keeppxe.
if figure what you're searching is something like IPAPPEND, but please
see hpa's comments on this on http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php

Br,

   Andreas

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