Syslinux - Apr 2003 - ipappend with pxelinux

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
    bf2.4/tftpboot.img

but the parameter fails to impact the running system. The 3Com MBA is able to
acquire the DHCP information without trouble and I can acquire DHCP info
manually (using dhclient-2.2.x) once the system is up so I know that DHCP is
working. 

initrdfs.gz is either of
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/
    idepci/root.bin
    bf2.4/root.bin

with a custom init procedure. (/etc/inittab has
  # main setup program
  ::once:/sbin/our-install.sh
) Am I doing something hokey?

Thank you for your time,
Ryan

Please CC me as I'm not on the list.

Hi,

Ryan Lovett <ryan at stat.Berkeley.EDU> schrieb am 05.04.03
02:37:18:
>  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
>     bf2.4/tftpboot.img
> 
> but the parameter fails to impact the running system. The 3Com MBA is able
to
> acquire the DHCP information without trouble and I can acquire DHCP info
> manually (using dhclient-2.2.x) once the system is up so I know that DHCP
is
> working. 
This needs the driver in the kernel, and Kernel Level IP config in the kernel.

You should see either the kernel parameter to be something with 'ip='
(so pxelinux actually gave this info to the kernel), see the driver initialize,
after this the kernel reporting it giving this IP to the driver. This all
happens
before any initrd is used, so if you want to set it from an initrd you need to
get the IP address out of /proc/cmdline by yourself.

Regards,

Josef

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