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--- httpboot [2009/12/20 12:00]
sha0 Moved screen-shot out of TOC's way
+++ httpboot [2010/10/14 04:39] (current)
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 HTTP can handle much larger files than TFTP, and scale to much larger distances.  You can easily download multi-megabyte files, such as a Linux kernel and a root filesystem, and you can download from servers that are not on your local area network.  We have successfully tested booting across the Atlantic using HTTP!
 ===== Using PXELINUX =====
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     echo Performing DHCP on first network interface
     dhcp net0
-    set 210:string http://webserver.com/
+    set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default
-    echo Set PXELINUX prefix to use ${210:string}
+    set 210:string http://example.com/
-    echo Chaining PXELINUX
     chain ${210:string}pxelinux.0
 The 'chain' command above will be expanded by gPXE to:
-  chain http://webserver.com/pxelinux.0
+  chain http://example.com/pxelinux.0
-and the chained-to PXELINUX will look for its configuration file using the 210 prefix.  All relative paths specified in the PXELINUX configuration file will also have this prefix prepended to them.
+and the chained-to PXELINUX will look for its configuration file using the 210 prefix.
+All relative paths specified in the PXELINUX configuration file will also have this prefix
+prepended to them.
+===== Using gpxelinux.0 =====
+Since SYSLINUX 3.85 there is also the option of using gpxelinux.0 with pxelinux.0 embedded, example:
+<code text>
+#!gpxe
+echo Performing DHCP on first network interface
+dhcp net0
+set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default
+set 210:string http://example.com/
+imgload pxelinux.0
+boot pxelinux.0
+</code>