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...Here's what I mean by 'chainloading to install an automatic http prefix': pxelinux.cfg: ------------ DEFAULT switch-to-lpxe-with-http-default TIMEOUT 0 LABEL switch-to-lpxe-with-http-default KERNEL http://my.ip/syslinux/pxechn.c32 http://my.ip/syslinux/lpxelinux.0 -p http://my.ip/ -c nextstage.cfg nextstage.cfg: ------------- Former contents of pxelinux.cfg I tried this with 6.02. After some unexplained delays in the chainloading, my graphical menu does show up! Unfortunately, the host locks up at that point --- doesn't respond to keypress, nor is the countdown timeout changing...

When chainloading one pxelinux from another (e.g., chainloading from say pxelinux 4.07 to pxelinux 6.02), can one pass parameters or somehow control the root directory and/or server IP address? Here's the need: we have a loaded-up PXE server working great under 4.07, and I'm not prepared to just switch the entire setup to a newer version of pxelinux, too many folks depending on a

...nsfer logs show no transfer attempt! If I change that line to just 'KERNEL syslinux/pxechn.c32' then it works. (2) another bug in gpxelinux 6.03-pre17 possibly related to pxechn: When I DHCP boot to lpxelinux.0 and then pxechn to gpxelinux.0, with '-p http://my.ip/' and '-c nextstage.cfg', gpxelinux.0 seems to ignore the '-c' option and just tries to load pxelinux.cfg (I see this in my transfer logs). Furthermore, it does this with TFTP and not HTTP, so seems to also ignore the '-p' option. (And then, because it loaded my pxelinux.cfg, it finally hits th...

...g to > install an automatic http prefix': > > pxelinux.cfg: > ------------ > DEFAULT switch-to-lpxe-with-http-default > TIMEOUT 0 > LABEL switch-to-lpxe-with-http-default > KERNEL http://my.ip/syslinux/pxechn.c32 http://my.ip/syslinux/lpxelinux.0 -p > http://my.ip/ -c nextstage.cfg > > nextstage.cfg: > ------------- > Former contents of pxelinux.cfg Just to be clear, I'd recommend extracting from the binary/source archive, not running make and just copying files as needed. This sounds like you're using gpxelinux.0 4.07 which as I stated will introduc...