i just discovered the alternate ftp server syntax for pxelinux in the changelog today. this interests me as I would like to use pxelinux on a linux box to give a config file which tells pxelinux to fetch the windows 2003 bootloader program (actually startrom.n12 from windows 2003) from the windows box. IE: label windows kernel 192.168.1.2::startrom.0 since i can watch the fetching of the pxelinux config file on the linux box (with a named pipe) i know exactly when the windows install happens and therefore i can twiddle the pxelinux config to localboot 0 after the windows install starts. good so far. now for my question: i know the windows install works fine via pxelinux when the next- server dhcp option lists windows box and my pxelinux config file lists kernel startrom.0. i assume windows startrom is looking at next-server dhcp option to know where to tftp ntldr. is this true? if so, will the 192.168.1.2::startrom.0 syntax work? i went looking through the code for the alternate tftp server syntax and i don't see anywhere where the bootp.sip is re-written with the alternate server ip. would this have to happen for the windows startrom bootloader to know where to tftp ntldr from? thanks everybody jason
jason bishop wrote:> > i assume windows startrom is looking at next-server dhcp option to > know where to tftp ntldr. is this true? if so, will the > 192.168.1.2::startrom.0 syntax work? i went looking through the code > for the alternate tftp server syntax and i don't see anywhere where > the bootp.sip is re-written with the alternate server ip. would this > have to happen for the windows startrom bootloader to know where to > tftp ntldr from? >As you have surmised, this will not do what you expect. -hpa
:) brain fart. you beat me to it, i just realized and was about to post my mistake. yes, it works like a charm. this is very cool. On Apr 2, 2008, at 6:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:> jason bishop wrote: >> >> label blah >> COMBOOT pxechain startrom.com >> > > label blah > comboot pxechain.cbt > append startrom.com > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > 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. >
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