Please put pxelinux.0 in /images/pxeboot/

Jerry Williams jwilliam at xmission.com
Sat Jan 27 07:18:54 UTC 2007


> However, one pxelinux.0 is all you need, while you may have many vmlinuz
> and initrd.img pairs booting.  I can boot RHEL 3, RHEL 4, FC 6, and
> rawhide (all i386 or x86_64) from my boot server; I only need one
> pxelinux.0 for that (and I use the most up to date version, not the one
> that came with RHEL 3).
> 
> The vmlinuz and initrd.img are a matched pair; any pxelinux.0 (that
> works with your client computer) will work to boot them.  If it would
> only boot with the matched pxelinux.0, there'd be reason to include it.

That is kind of what I wanted to know, just didn't ask the question very
well.  Doesn't sound like pxelinux.0 changes a whole lot.
So I am okay with how things are now.
Thanks for the clarification!

> 
> > It's just kind of a pain to run:
> > rpm2cpio syslinux-3.31-2.i386.rpm |cpio -iv --make-directories
> > ./usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
> 
> You run it one time and then you have it, while you may replace/add
> vmlinuz and initrd.img regularly.  It doesn't need to be bundled.
> 
> --
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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