Thanks, that should work well. I could easily do it with Syslinux- it has a nice menu system. I should of thought of that but I didn't.
Ben -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Michael Braun Sent: Fri 4/9/2010 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SUSPECT: Re: [gPXE] Local menu system for gpxe Hi, On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:32:10AM -0400, Ben Derstine wrote: > We happen to be in a predicament where we have staff scattered across > different facilities and different networks. We do not have DHCP > services in any of these remote networks nor can we somehow provide > them. What I have done is compiled gpxe with a script that statically > assigns the IP info for a given network and this works. The problem is > that this forces me to create and carry a separate USB key or CD > configured for each network. That's rather cumbersome with the number > of separate networks we have. So what I would like to do is have gpxe > present an initial menu that allows the admin to select the appropriate > IP settings for the network they happen to be on. Please note that > this menu needs to be available before gpxe has any kind of network > info. Is there a way to do this? I have seen that there are ways to > have gpxe present a menu after obtaining IP info but that doesn't really > help me. you could use a bootloader that starts the appropiate gpxe lkrn image. Regards, M. Braun _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
