Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: [Etherboot-developers] http://rom-o-matic.net updated with Etherboot-5.4.0

[Marty C. <md...@et...>]

On Apr 28, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Samuel Clements wrote:
>> It turns out that PXELINUX treats files ending in .bin specially, so 
>> you have to actually rename the file:
>>     mv /tftpboot/memtest.bin to /tftpboot/memtestbin
>> Then, if you can change your /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to 
>> look like:
>>     default memtest
>>     prompt 0
>>     label memtest
>>       kernel memtestbin
>> Then it works.
>
> Indeed this does work! I tried this with memtest from memtest.com and 
> memtest.org and they both work with this described method.

Great!  I'm glad it works for you too.  I enjoyed watching it run, and 
it seems like a very useful tool.

>> Now, it turns out that you could just load PXELINUX from your Intel 
>> EEPRO100 card's PXE, and it would likely work fine, but you do get 
>> extra style points (and mad respect :) for doing the:
>>     PXE -> Etherboot -> PXELINUX -> memtestbin
>> route rather than just
>>     PXE -> PXELINUX -> memtestbin
>
> YAY for style points! Unfortunately, I think I just discovered that 
> pxelinux is probably what I've wanted all along. My main intent it to 
> have a menu style interface (pxelinux does) that is pxe loadable (that 
> too) that will load both DOS images as well as memtest (just proved 
> that!)
	
Yes, PXELINUX is pretty cool.  Note that if you have an ethernet card 
without PXE onboard (say, like an RTL8139 based-card), Now that 
Etherboot has PXE support, you could put an EPROM on it and load 
PXELINUX from Etherboot.  We also are working on various features 
extending the PXE spec, which we hope will be useful.

> I'll need to do some more exploring and looking, but I think I'm going 
> to take a harder look at pxelinux over the next couple of days. If 
> this means moving away from etherboot, I will of course not be happy, 
> but I suppose thats the way of it sometimes. I cannot express enough 
> how I appreciate all of your help and hard work.
>   Many Thanks  -Sam

You're very welcome.  I'm happy to help you find the best available 
solution for you, even if it's not the one I happen to be hacking on at 
the moment.

Your testing and reporting of bugs helps us improve our code, and I 
thank you very much for working with us.

Regards,

Marty

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