Re: [Etherboot-discuss] Some patches I'm using

[Timothy S. <ts...@vm...>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:46:11AM -0700, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> In the interest of making sure gPXE proper benefits to the extent the
> maintainers desire from what I do with gPXE, I'm going to paste links
> to some patches I'm using and explanation:
> 
> https://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-dep/trunk/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.7-registeriscsionpxe.patch
> This patch adds the ability to set up an ISCSI drive, then PXE.  This
> allows things like PXE booting WinPE and RHEL5.3 installer with an
> IBFT to consult on how to set up software iSCSI.  I recognise that
> most applications of this may be better done in other ways, but at
> times, it is convenient.   I didn't make it configurable, but it may
> be appropriate to hook it into the keep_san_setting if you actually
> wanted it.  That's entirely a matter of opinion.

I'd vote for this functionality as well, since I implemented a similar patch
for similar reasons.

> https://xcat.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xcat/xcat-dep/trunk/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.7-hdboot.patch
> This adds a simple command to do int13 boot to 0x80.

I think this would also be useful.

tim stack