Tim Harvey
2005-Jun-14 04:10 UTC
[syslinux] Can I use pxelinux to boot a cdrom image or isolinux from pxe?
Greetings, I've been a user and fan of SYSLINUX for a couple of years now. I use PXELINUX for a PXE server. I've only been able to boot linux kernel/initrd images and dos bootdisks, however now I'm wanting to create a boot image for the 'Rescue Is Possible' (RIP) linux recovery disk - http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Previous versions came with a kernel and initrd that could be used with PXE but the latest version instead comes as an ISO image which uses syslinux which raises a couple of questions: 1) Is there some way I can use pxelinux/memdisk to boot a generic bootable ISO image? 2) Is there some way that I can 'chain load' the syslinux on this ISO image from my pxelinux? Thanks for any advise, Tim
Geert Stappers
2005-Jun-14 08:04 UTC
[syslinux] Can I use pxelinux to boot a cdrom image or isolinux from pxe?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:10:04PM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:> Greetings, > > I've been a user and fan of SYSLINUX for a couple of years now. I use PXELINUX > for a PXE server. I've only been able to boot linux kernel/initrd images and > dos bootdisks, however now I'm wanting to create a boot image for the 'Rescue > Is Possible' (RIP) linux recovery disk - > http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ > > Previous versions came with a kernel and initrd that could be used with PXE but > the latest version instead comes as an ISO image which uses syslinux which > raises a couple of questions: > > 1) Is there some way I can use pxelinux/memdisk to boot a generic bootable ISO > image? > > 2) Is there some way that I can 'chain load' the syslinux on this ISO image > from my pxelinux? > > Thanks for any advise,Qeustions like these, have been posted before on this mailinglist. I can't recall that I have seen a "Here is a How To" message, so it doesn't make sense to redirect to the archive of this mailinglist. Back to the questions. I wonder why you want to solve it at the "client side". The previous version of RIP provided a nice "server side" setup. What about taking the usefull parts from the RIP ISO and putting them on the server where you add the PXELINUX stuff?> > TimCheers Geert Stappers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCro+HOSINbgwa/7sRAqEBAJ95O4wpnrmT2QiOWL81q2IHIOyRIwCeMts7 Da+ZXdg6SLupR1PmYDG+TWI=3JW8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----