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2011 Jun 08
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Chainloading from one PXELINUX to another (with some iPXE in the mix)?
...that causes iPXE to start FOG the same way with the same parameters.
I then call iPXE as 'ipxe.lkrn' from within the master SYSLINUX, with a
parameter that is a short one-line script to get a DHCP address, download
the output of that script from the FOG server, and execute it:
LABEL fog.currentTask
kernel ipxe.lkrn dhcp && chain http://[FQDN]/tftpboot/fog-ipxe.php?mac=${mac}
MENU LABEL Boot to FOG server and run assigned task
This works really well on *most* machines, and ends up being quite robust.
However, 'ipxe.lkrn' seems to require native network driver support in ord...