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| author | Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com> | 2011-03-09 20:45:28 -0500 |
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| committer | Gene Cumm <gene.cumm@gmail.com> | 2011-03-09 20:45:28 -0500 |
| commit | 79113b63e80e5dba49c8f251d6ae2480962e88b4 (patch) | |
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| parent | fdab28642b8a98619c7efa7daf17a2d758722b8d (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-79113b63e80e5dba49c8f251d6ae2480962e88b4.tar.gz | |
doc/pxelinux.txt: Info on gPXE-enhanced binaries
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diff --git a/doc/pxelinux.txt b/doc/pxelinux.txt index 47aea903..69c1a645 100644 --- a/doc/pxelinux.txt +++ b/doc/pxelinux.txt @@ -99,6 +99,20 @@ boot, if you have such a setup. MTFTP server setup is beyond the scope of this document. + ++++ gPXE-ENHANCED VARIANTS ++++ + +gPXE can be used to enhance PXELINUX's functionality to also include +HTTP transfers, greatly increasing load speed and allowing for standard +HTTP scripts to present PXELINUX's configuration file. pxelinux.0 is +the plain variant. gpxelinux.0 (included as of 3.70) is gPXE's +undionly.kkpxe, pxelinux.0 and a script to run pxelinux.0. gpxelinuxk.0 +(included as of 4.04) is gPXE's undionly.kpxe, pxelinux.0 and a script +to run pxelinux.0. gpxelinuxk.0 should only be used with systems that +are incompatible with gpxelinux.0 as it prevents certain functionality +from working (LOCALBOOT with a type not equal to -1) and is incompatible +with certain hardware, PXE stacks and network setups. + + ++++ SETTING UP THE TFTP SERVER ++++ PXELINUX currently requires that the boot server has a TFTP server |