[ipxe-devel] Chainloading from iPXE to other PXE servers

[Michael Brown]

On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 15:13:03 Andrew Bobulsky wrote:
> Regarding this:
> >> I should then be able to put
> >> ${variables} inside the menu config files I am loading for
> >> vesamenu.c32  and they should be expanded?
> >
> >Yes, that's the idea.
> 
> I've only glanced loosely at this thread, but that's what the patch you've
> posted earlier does?  If so, please kindly accept the immense gratitude
> brought on by the relief from years of hacking around this limitation with
> every boot menu I've built!

Glad to know it would be useful!  Yes, that's what the patch (allegedly) does.

> And, will it (or does it already) work for  DHCP options too?

Courtesy of Jarrod Johnson, iPXE already does this for "filename" and "root-
path":

  http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/3ed849b

> Please do let us (or just me :P) know when you include this into your
>  latest commit.

Will do.

Michael