similar to: Distilling down a small set of useful system data

I am using PXELINUX to unattened install our machines with XP. It is a not very easy to handle with mac adresses because mac adresses can change when a motherboard is changed, but the asset tag from dell (or also from compaq) will be also updated when the motherboard is changed to the original value, so our unique key here is the asset tag. So my idea is to change the behaviour so that it will

Okay, this applies particularly to SYSLINUX, not ISO/PXE/EXTLINUX. If you have a system on which 2.13 boots and 3.0x don't, I would like to get as much information as possible about it. In particular, I would like to know: - What device are you booting from (floppy, USB, IDE harddrive...) - Motherboard manufacturer/model - CPU manufacturer/model (a dump of /proc/cpuinfo would

Anyone have an idea if it would be a huge effort to get pxelinux to look for config files based on serial number (available in DMI on modern motherboards), much like we currently can use MAC address's. Lots of our hardware comes with the serial number stuck on the chassis but not the mac address. We'd like to move to pxelinux and still use the serial number as the key for figuring which

Hi all Is there any way to extract information (like what dmidecode provides) from within PXELINUX and, based on this information, selectively perform an action? What I'm trying to do is provide a method of flashing the BIOS of our HP Linux workstations but different workstations use different methods of updating the BIOSes. For example, the xw9300 uses 'rompaq' where the xw8400

Hmm... well adding the __export stopped the "undefined symbol" error from showing up when I add "SENDCOOKIES" in the config, however I'm still not seeing any cookies being sent to my webserver. Any ideas on how to further debug? (if you want to send me the debug compile options privately that's okay too) -----Original Message----- From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at

Hi all I've written a basic COM32 module that checks (using the DMI example code) the product and BIOS and if the BIOS is not at the required level, is supposed to exit and boot using a DOS floppy image to flash the BIOS. The problem is that I can't work out how to call the DOS floppy image. Looking at the website, I see "Run Command" AX=0003H via int 22. The image name will

Hello all, I'm thinking about wrapping up a 3.70 release, even though gpxelinux.0 is technically not feature-complete. I'd like people's opinion on it. -hpa

Hello. Use the z size specifier to printf-ing size_t variables to get rid of gcc warning format ?%08x? expects type ?unsigned int?, but argument 2 has type ?long unsigned int? -- MartinS diff --git a/com32/lib/syslinux/initramfs_file.c b/com32/lib/syslinux/initramfs_file.c index 7eb55b5..9f9fa75 100644 --- a/com32/lib/syslinux/initramfs_file.c +++ b/com32/lib/syslinux/initramfs_file.c @@

Hi Thanx guys for the help on understanding howto read dmi info! I now have a custom boot menu for install of different linux versions based if they have been installed before (reinstall is ok for users, first install is not), and installquirks like if we detect odd hardware, we add install options to redhat installer so it can install anyhow (for instance hp dc7800 who needs pci=nommconf as

I think my oven is broken, but maybe I have the recipe wrong. I've been trying to utilize the lwIP stack and dmi information to avoid iPXE use. I can do a SYSAPPEND 0x00080 and it shows up in /proc/cmdline after booting the kernel, but tcpdump is not revealing the cookies as described during HTTP calls in the documentation. Trying the magic "SENDCOOKIES" parameter outside of an

Ralf Carl a ?crit : > Hello Erwan, > > i just want to inform you, that there is still no memory entry in the > main menu (hdt_034 & hdt_035). > Typing in DMI mode "show module 0" etc. the memory modules are listet. You mean the menu mode isn't working whereas the cli mode works ? Do you confirm this , IF yes, It seems the Type 6 (the only one you have as you

Hi, I have been experimenting a bit with lua.c32 and I have created a small lua.c32 wiki page at: http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Lua.c32 With my minimal knowledge about Lua (and the inconvenience of not being able to copy&paste or edit scripts) I discovered that the dmi module has 2 functions (supported, gettable) and a syslinux module with 1 function (run_command). Do we

The speed value is available since version 2.3 of the SMBIOS specification. Set the default speed string to "Unknown" for older versions. - Sebastian Index: syslinux-3.74-20-g3b80c26/com32/gpllib/dmi/dmi.c =================================================================== --- syslinux-3.74-20-g3b80c26.orig/com32/gpllib/dmi/dmi.c +++ syslinux-3.74-20-g3b80c26/com32/gpllib/dmi/dmi.c @@

Since Syslinux 4.01-pre2, lua is the master branch. This lua.c32 moudule doesn't support much. There is a much recent lua.c32, made by Marcel Ritter's: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2009-October/013383.html The last time he wrote about the state of his lua branch: ============================================================ The current state is: - VESA: - switching to vesa mode

Hi again, the attached patch (re-)enables parts of lua's liolib.c, especially io.write() for formatted output (similar to printf() ): Example: -- define printf() function printf = function(s,...) return io.write(s:format(...)) end -- function printf("Hallo, this is hex %04x\n", 64321) Bye, Marcel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text

playing with hdt on a soekris 4801, Im getting HUGE delays in cpu_detect. I added some timing code, heres what Im seeing ACPI: Detecting 0 mS in detect_acpi MEMORY: Detecting 0 mS in detect_memory DMI: Detecting Table DMI: ERROR ! Table not found ! DMI: Many hardware components will not be detected ! 55 mS in detect_dmi CPU: Detecting 0 mS in get_cpu_vendor 0 mS in "intel cpu

playing with hdt on a soekris 4801, Im getting HUGE delays in cpu_detect. I added some timing code, heres what Im seeing ACPI: Detecting 0 mS in detect_acpi MEMORY: Detecting 0 mS in detect_memory DMI: Detecting Table DMI: ERROR ! Table not found ! DMI: Many hardware components will not be detected ! 55 mS in detect_dmi CPU: Detecting 0 mS in get_cpu_vendor 0 mS in "intel cpu

Hi, we use PXELINUX in our product to show a boot menu on client computers, with options like "Boot from local hard disk", "Install Windows", etc. Unfortunately, a lot of computers seem to have broken BIOSes and won't boot with the LOCALBOOT command, and need to be booted with chain.c32 instead. We also have encountered some computers where it works only the other way -

> On Jul 10, 2015 5:29 PM, "poma via Syslinux" <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: > > > The same as with the ISOLINUX, stable and git. > > Only this time has nothing to do with the menu. > > 1) EXTLINUX is no longer a discrete variant. The installer extlinux now > installs SYSLINUX. > 2) William Kensington already saw a similar behavior wherein an

Hi folks, I've been off for a pretty long time and I'm trying to resume a little bit. While testing HDT I found some serious bugs in HDT's CLI mode but also took the time to update the DMI detection tables. Please find my hw_update branch which is in sync with the current git tree. https://github.com/ErwanAliasr1/syslinux/commits/hw_update Erwan,