Re: [Etherboot-developers] hacking pxelinux compatibility into etherboot

[Christoph P. <chr...@al...>]

Hello,
	I don't know exactly, if this is interesting for you,
but have a look at GRUB boot loader ....

	http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

I don't know, was pxe-linux is ...

Cheers
	Christoph P.

"David L. Parsley" wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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