This may seem to be an odd request, but here it goes: I would like to be able to recursively load pxelinux. Simple reason being that many useful mini distro's now use it (PXES, Recovery is Possible, Fedora Anaconda, my own homebrew setup program, unattended.sf.net, etc), and I would like to be able have drop in upgradabily for those distro's. The idea being I can create a master menu and then point to and load the native menu for each of those distro's. I think it is possible using the native PXE menu support, but I would like to confirm if it is possible with pxelinux. Ian Anderson
I've been wanting to do the same thing. I tried chaining simply by referencing the other's pxelinux.0 as the 'kernel' but was unable to get it to work. As a substitute I have gotten RIP, unnatended, and the fedora installer to run in my pxelinux menu by referencing their kernels and root filesystems through my menu (using options I found in their configs). This question has probably been asked before and the answer is probably in the list archives, but I haven't found a way to search them. Tim --- "Anderson, Ian" <Ian.Anderson at CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca> wrote:> This may seem to be an odd request, but here it goes: > > I would like to be able to recursively load pxelinux. Simple reason being > that many useful mini distro's now use it (PXES, Recovery is Possible, > Fedora Anaconda, my own homebrew setup program, unattended.sf.net, etc), and > I would like to be able have drop in upgradabily for those distro's. The > idea being I can create a master menu and then point to and load the native > menu for each of those distro's. I think it is possible using the native > PXE menu support, but I would like to confirm if it is possible with > pxelinux. > > Ian Anderson > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >
Anderson, Ian wrote:> This may seem to be an odd request, but here it goes: > > I would like to be able to recursively load pxelinux. Simple reason being > that many useful mini distro's now use it (PXES, Recovery is Possible, > Fedora Anaconda, my own homebrew setup program, unattended.sf.net, etc), and > I would like to be able have drop in upgradabily for those distro's. The > idea being I can create a master menu and then point to and load the native > menu for each of those distro's. I think it is possible using the native > PXE menu support, but I would like to confirm if it is possible with > pxelinux. >Instead of realoading pxelinux.0, isn't there a way to chain the "default" config files? Or maybe I am thinking of submenus in menu32.com. I like the idea of being ablte to point to an unaltered default in some other dir (like the loop mounted CD image) Carl K