Re: [Etherboot-developers] MOTD options?

[<ke...@us...>]

>Is it worth leaving in the ability to print simple, text-only MOTDs direct
>from Etherboot?  I have found text MOTDs to be very useful in debugging
>DHCP server / Etherboot configuration problems.

If you mean debug whether the right image was loaded, I organise my
tftpboot directory this way:

dhcpd.conf contains

host burner {
	...
	filename "burner.nb"
	...
}

and in tftpboot I have a symbolic link from burner.nb to the real image,
which may be shared amongst several machines.  This way the filename
displayed reflects the machine identity and not the image loaded. It
also allows me to switch the images for testing without having to
restart dhcpd.

With the external menu you could even go further, you could make it
display all the fields of interest in the DHCP reply if you wanted.

Will this suffice?