Syslinux - Oct 2013 - installing only pxelinux?

On 10/30/2013 12:52 AM, Ady wrote:
> 
>> The wiki (http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX) still says:
>>
>>    "copy pxelinux.0 (from the SYSLINUX distribution) and any
>>     kernel or initrd images that you want to boot"
>>
>> like I've been doing forever, but how do I know what else I need,
and
>> whether I'm missing libs or something they require?
>>
>> I was thinking of 'make install', but Makefile apparently
compiles
>> everything, and if that's the preferred way I'll go that route;
mostly
>> I'm looking for some guidance:  what's the "best" way
to populate a
>> /tftpboot/ with the necessary PXELINUX files?
>>
>  
> No need to 'make' anything :). Search the Syslinux wiki for
"Library
> modules". I'm not saying it will solve every single problem you
might
> have with version 6.02, but it will give you a generic answer to your 
> question.
> 
> Regarding /tftpboot/ and mixing BIOS and EFI files, this ML has some 
> prior threads about the same topic already. Unfortunately, there is 
> no easy way to effectively search the ML and find what you might be 
> looking for, so you might need to manually go through the mailing 
> list archives.
> 
A Google search with site:syslinux.org should work.

	-hpa

> 
> A Google search with site:syslinux.org should work.
> 
> 	-hpa
 
As I pointed out in the ML more than once during the last months, 
that method *might* give, in some "random" case(s), a relevant 
result. But since Google has stopped caching / adding results from 
syslinux.org (for a whole year now), that method is no longer a 
generic reliable one.

Regards,
Ady.

On 10/30/2013 10:29 AM, Ady wrote:
> 
>>
>> A Google search with site:syslinux.org should work.
>>
>> 	-hpa
>  
> As I pointed out in the ML more than once during the last months, 
> that method *might* give, in some "random" case(s), a relevant 
> result. But since Google has stopped caching / adding results from 
> syslinux.org (for a whole year now), that method is no longer a 
> generic reliable one.
> 
I thought that had been fixed.

	-hpa