[ipxe-devel] Unable to load custom menu in gPXE / iPXE scripts chaining to pxelinux.0 with dhcp option 209

[Chee-Yang Chau]

So it has to be syslinux 3.86?  The syslinux 4.10 able to load image
and configuration from http and we no longer need ipxe chaining.
However, I still can't make it works to load menus.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Sven Dreyer <sven at dreyer-net.de> wrote:
> Am 18.11.2011 16:20, schrieb Chee-Yang Chau:
>>
>> Due to the lack of support of menu in iPXE, I force to use chain to
>> PXELinux's menu.
>
> I'm also using a menu and doing it in a (as I think) simpler fashion:
>
> BIOS > NIC's PXE ROM > DHCP and TFTP > ipxe.kpxe > script (see below) >
> menu.c32 > menu.cfg
>
> The script goes like this:
> <SNIP>
> #!ipxe
> chain http://my-server/menu/menu.c32 http://my-server/menu.cfg
> </SNIP>
>
> menu.c32 is from syslinux 3.86, later versions use a different module
> format.
> menu.cfg contains the menu's configuration
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sven
>



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Best regards,
Chau Chee Yang