similar to: Availability of a variable of the TFTP server IP addressto be used in pxelinux.cfg/default

Hello, I'm new to Linux and quite inexperienced - sorry. I set up about 20 PXE servers with several tools as different boot images. Two of the tools require files to be loaded from the TFTP after the kernel has loaded. Currently I do the following in pxelinux.cfg/default: label abc kernel def append TFTP://2.3.4.5/xyz My PXE boot images are set on one master server and from there

Good day again Michael, You might potentially be interested in linux.c32, as well. Whether you use IPAPPEND or linux.c32, either way I believe that you have to customize the distro to make use of the passed parameters. If you take a look at syslinux/com32/modules/linux.c, you will see that this COMBOOT32 module accepts "-dhcpinfo" as an argument. The behaviour here is that linux.c32

Hi all, First time here, so please be gentle! :) I'm trying to configure a system that will pxeboot and retrieve a kickstart file from a server based on that host's macaddress as part of my Edison project[0] however I'm having issues getting the dns lookup to work and I'm hoping you can help! My pxelinux.cfg/default file is as follows: ======================= default linux

Hello, I got in a situation where pxelinux 3.7 (or 3.6) reboots constantly after loading the configuration file and displaying the 'display' option file, but never showing 'boot:' prompt. config file is following: # PXE SYSLINUX config file - look at # http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php for syntax # # ---------- This is gate configure file ------- timeout 20 prompt 1 display

Hi All, I am going to be presenting a 45 minute session at Linux World in April on how to use PXELinux to provision linux systems, among other things. This probably isn't of value to most on the list, as it is geared towards giving new users a jumpstart on what's needed so that they can get up and going quickly along with some practical suggestions and tips. I'll be

Hello, I have not been able to get the IPAPPEND option to successfully set the ip parameters for a pxelinux install. I have LABEL install KERNEL pxelinux.cfg/tftpboot.img APPEND initrd=pxelinux.cfg/initrdfs.gz root=/dev/ram IPAPPEND 1 where tftpboot.img is either of http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/ idepci/tftpboot.img

I have been using PXELINUX with the "ipappend 2" option for a long time. To make things a little more user friendly, I decided to set up menus (text menus with menu.c32), but they wouldn't work (blank screen and corrupted menu flashes by when you hit a key). I went through all kinds of combinations of options, and finally found that commenting out the "ipappend 2" line

Hello, I am experimenting with pxelinux. My setup is currently working. My network card receives IP address from DHCP server, and then it downloads pxelinux.0 and executes it. PXElinux loads its config file ('pxelinux.cfg/default') and is able to download vmlinuz and initrd.gz from TFTP server, and execute vmlinuz. Now the question: is there any way to pass server's IP address as a

core and the simple menu do not interpret the IPAPPEND/SYSAPPEND directives in the same way. Which is the proper way? Either way, this should be clarified in the documentation. com32/elflink/ldlinux/readconfig.c: } else if ((ep = looking_at(p, "ipappend")) || (ep = looking_at(p, "sysappend"))) { uint32_t s = strtoul(skipspace(ep), NULL,

Background: I recently wrote to Peter Anvin regarding IPAPPEND functionality, and he suggested I take the issue to this mailing list. I see it has been touched upon several times, after reviewing the archives. Let me see if I can add to it with a good level of detail: When using PXE to network boot a linux client, PXE must first acquire the client's IP address, by dhcp request, then, the

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote: >> core and the simple menu do not interpret the IPAPPEND/SYSAPPEND >> directives in the same way. Which is the proper way? Either way, >> this should be clarified in the documentation. > > To be clear:

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote: > I guess the bug is here (com32/menu/readconfig.c) > > 910 } else if (looking_at(p, "ipappend") || looking_at(p, > "sysappend")) { > 911 if (ld.label) > 912 ld.ipappend = atoi(skipspace(p + 8)); > 913

The following changes since commit 4ff8fcac8e7b5046987dee15592ab510ab343aa8: Matt Fleming (1): Merge branch 'menu-ipappend-1-for-mfleming' of git://github.com/geneC/syslinux into elflink are available in the git repository at: git://github.com/geneC/syslinux.git ipappend-fix-for-mfleming Gene Cumm (2): core & menu: fix IPAPPEND/SYSAPPEND conversion doc/ &

If you want eth0 to be used and no dynamic IP configuration request should not occur in the Linux kernel, specify *both* APPEND and IPAPPEND options like: APPEND ip=:::::eth0:none IPAPPEND 1 It's very tricky but it works, at least Linux 2.4.18 which I tested. The IP-PNP routine in the kernel doesn't modify values if the option values are not explicitly specified. IPAPPEND doesn't

Hello H. Peter, we use pxelinux to start linux on desktop pcs. Now we have a problem with the interaction of dhcp. If the ip address is not fix, we cannot use the ip address as name for the configfile. A better solution would be, first to check for the mac and then for the ip address. Is it possible? TIA, Tobias

The following is a pxelinux problem, specifically to do with including config files with the menu include directive and the ifcpu64.c32 com module. I have a working ifcpu64.c32 setup that jumps to the label rescue64 in the case of a 64-bit CPU. The label "rescue64" defines a 64-bit kernel and a 64-bit initrd.img. The setup jumps to a label named "rescue32" in the case of a

Just spent a few hours going mad(der) wondering why my menu config wasn't working. It looks like the change in 3.74 ("Add IPAPPEND to com32 modules, especially needed for linux.c32") breaks menu.c32 (and possibly other modules) since they aren't expecting it. In particular menu.c32 uses that as an optional menu file, it then complains "Initial menu has no LABEL

does the IPAPPEND option still exist? If so I want clearification on it please. Out of the syslinux documentation it says the following. The flag_val is an OR of the following options: 1: indicates that an option of the following format should be generated and added to the kernel command line: ip=client-ip:boot-server-ip:gw-ip:netmask ... based on the input from the DHCP/BOOTP or PXE boot

Greetings all, Is there currently any mechanism in pxelinux the would send a mac address of the pxe booted interface through to the linux kernel much like ipappend can send the ip address? Kickstarting a system with multiple interfaces can be troublesome. ksdevice is helpful but only in some circumstances such as forcing eth0, but that doesn't always work since probe order changes depending

>Absolutely nothing; it's not valid config file syntax. Looks like it's >part of a longer line. here is the "automatic" in full context. label ackbar kernel Mdk8.1/vmlinuz append ramdisk_size=32000 initrd=Mdk8.1/network.rdz automatic=method:nfs,network:static,ip:192.168.1.205,dns:192.168.1.11,domain:mandrakesoft.com,server:ackbar,directory:/export vga=788