Hello everyone, I am in the process of setting up a home boot server using pxelinux. I have started creating a menu using menu.c32, and I want to add System Rescue CD to that. Is there any way I can point PXE to load the isolinux.cfg that comes with SystemRescueCD (I will now on refer to this file simply as isolinux.cfg), but not in the "menu" mode? I want to do that so all the information and boot options of SystemRescueCD are available So far the 2 options I have found out are: 1) Create a menu item that boots directly the default kernel of SystemRescueCD. Repeat for each other boot option needed. 2) Modify isolinux.cfg to make it display a proper menu using menu.c32, with proper labels etc. May need revision with newer version of SystemRescueCD I don't like any of the above options. I would just like to be able to load isolinux.cfg as if it was the initial config file. I have tested it by renaming to default and it works fine, exactly like booting from CD. I think that what I need is to load the standard pxelinux binary "kernel" with isolinux.cfg conf file,instead of the default. I tried that but pxelinux.0 seems to ignore conf filename. Is there another (possibly .c32) kernel I can use for this purpose? Hope I made my problem clear Thank you in advance Giannis
I have found this comboot module called pxechain: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2008-April/009795.html The author says it can be used to boot OS installer images, which is pretty much what I want to do. I cannot find any documentation on it though. Anyone has any info on that? Thanks Giannis Giannis Roussos wrote:> Hello everyone, > I am in the process of setting up a home boot server using pxelinux. I > have started creating a menu using menu.c32, and I want to add System > Rescue CD to that. Is there any way I can point PXE to load the > isolinux.cfg that comes with SystemRescueCD (I will now on refer to this > file simply as isolinux.cfg), but not in the "menu" mode? I want to do > that so all the information and boot options of SystemRescueCD are > available > > So far the 2 options I have found out are: > 1) Create a menu item that boots directly the default kernel of > SystemRescueCD. Repeat for each other boot option needed. > 2) Modify isolinux.cfg to make it display a proper menu using menu.c32, > with proper labels etc. May need revision with newer version of > SystemRescueCD > > I don't like any of the above options. I would just like to be able to > load isolinux.cfg as if it was the initial config file. I have tested it > by renaming to default and it works fine, exactly like booting from CD. > > I think that what I need is to load the standard pxelinux binary > "kernel" with isolinux.cfg conf file,instead of the default. I tried > that but pxelinux.0 seems to ignore conf filename. Is there another > (possibly .c32) kernel I can use for this purpose? > > Hope I made my problem clear > Thank you in advance > > Giannis > >
You can use the 'config' keyword. LABEL sysresc MENU LABEL SystemRescueCD CONFIG /rescuecdpath/isolinux.cfg It works with syslinux and isolinux. I am not familiar with pxelinux, so I am not completely sure if it works in pxelinux. Gert Hulselmans ----- Original Message ---- From: Giannis Roussos <morpheus.me at gmail.com> To: syslinux at zytor..com Sent: Saturday, 28 February, 2009 12:23:42 Subject: [syslinux] Return to text mode after menu.c32 Hello everyone, I am in the process of setting up a home boot server using pxelinux. I have started creating a menu using menu.c32, and I want to add System Rescue CD to that. Is there any way I can point PXE to load the isolinux.cfg that comes with SystemRescueCD (I will now on refer to this file simply as isolinux.cfg), but not in the "menu" mode? I want to do that so all the information and boot options of SystemRescueCD are available So far the 2 options I have found out are: 1) Create a menu item that boots directly the default kernel of SystemRescueCD. Repeat for each other boot option needed. 2) Modify isolinux.cfg to make it display a proper menu using menu.c32, with proper labels etc. May need revision with newer version of SystemRescueCD I don't like any of the above options. I would just like to be able to load isolinux.cfg as if it was the initial config file. I have tested it by renaming to default and it works fine, exactly like booting from CD. I think that what I need is to load the standard pxelinux binary "kernel" with isolinux.cfg conf file,instead of the default. I tried that but pxelinux.0 seems to ignore conf filename. Is there another (possibly .c32) kernel I can use for this purpose? Hope I made my problem clear Thank you in advance Giannis _______________________________________________ Syslinux mailing list Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic..