[Etherboot-developers] hacking pxelinux compatibility into etherboot
Brought to you by:
marty_connor,
stefanhajnoczi
|
From: David L. P. <pa...@li...> - 2001-02-22 18:09:21
|
Hi Ken, To help with my work, I'm going to look into hacking etherboot to behave similarly to pxelinux. Not having looked at the code yet, my current plan is this: hack etherboot to check for a boot filename of something/pxelinux.bin. If it finds that name, it will instead tftp the config-file something/pxelinux.cfg/(pxelinuxcfgfile*) and parse and use it in a similar manner to pxelinux. This would make etherboot behave more like a traditional linux bootloader, and would simplify things for me greatly. I reallize it's linux-specific, but then, my work is linux-specific. ;-) It'll take a while for me to read through the code and figure out how best to do this, so I thought I'd check with you and the etherboot-devel list to see if anyone had suggestions for the best strategy to accomplish this. regards, David |