[Etherboot-developers] hacking pxelinux compatibility into etherboot

[David L. P. <pa...@li...>]

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