[gPXE] HTTP boot SDI by chainloading pxelinux.0/sdi.c32?

[Joakim Schicht]

Just confirming that it works.

Booted directly to the prompt of gPXE. Then chained pxelinux.0 using these commands;

dhcp net0
set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default
set 210:string http://ip_of_server/
chain http://ip_of_server/pxelinux.0


Content of pxelinux.cfg/default;

DEFAULT /pxelinux.cfg/menu.c32

LABEL image.gz (SDI)
MENU LABEL image.gz (SDI)
KERNEL /pxelinux.cfg/sdi.c32 
APPEND image.gz

Booting fine an SDI image of full XP which was gzipped to 306 Mb. On a crappy wireless connection it took a few minutes though. 

Thanks for the pointers.

Joakim Schicht

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:46:26 -0500
From: Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
To: jonny49 at live.no
CC: gpxe at etherboot.org
Subject: Re: [gPXE] HTTP boot SDI by chainloading pxelinux.0/sdi.c32?






  


Joakim Schicht wrote:

  My
question is simply if the above setup is possible to boot?

  
I would say yes.  PXELINUX can currently use HTTP if it is
chained-from and detects gPXE.  If sdi.c32 uses the same file opening
logic as, let's say, menu.c32, then it should work.  Look for "Changes
in 3.70" in syslinux/NEWS and also look for "is_gpxe:" in
syslinux/core/pxelinux.asm.



- Shao Miller

 		 	   		  
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