On Thursday 27 Jan 2011 20:14:09 Dave Hansen wrote: > If you are booting ipxe.lkrn, this _effectively_ lets you do is pass in > a tiny script via the boot command-line. I use iPXE to compile kernels > on one system and then boot them elsewhere. The reboot cycles are > *SLOW*, and I like to speed them up. This should let me do something > like the following in GRUB's menu.lst: > > title iPXE > kernel /boot/ipxe.lkrn dhcp && kernel http://1.2.3.4/~vmlinuz > root=UUID=ce4190bb-bdee-48e0-8e47-7e71d167c4ac ro profile=2 single > > Previously, I would either have a custom copy of ipxe for each system, > or a custom script on a server, indexed by the system's MAC. It's > *MUCH* nicer to just keep all of the root= or serial console arguments > all in one file (menu.lst). > > This could also be used to anything that the embedded scripts were, like > setting static IPs.
I have finally got around to fixing this up and committing it: http://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commitdiff/b2332d5 I have tested it with pxelinux and isolinux. Reports with other bootloaders would be very welcome. Dave, thanks very much for doing the original implementation of this feature! Michael _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel
