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| author | hpa <hpa> | 2000-06-28 19:54:31 +0000 |
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| committer | hpa <hpa> | 2000-06-28 19:54:31 +0000 |
| commit | 92056f7b3d31d8c00931182b2e95b3b4931ad3f8 (patch) | |
| tree | bf576f418c374ae2c818683fa36173f22a33ac3a /pxelinux.doc | |
| parent | 4dddf75b66d64138a815b97bbaf654c708a73824 (diff) | |
| download | syslinux-92056f7b3d31d8c00931182b2e95b3b4931ad3f8.tar.gz | |
Update in preparation for 1.49 release.
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diff --git a/pxelinux.doc b/pxelinux.doc index b79f5478..40081491 100644 --- a/pxelinux.doc +++ b/pxelinux.doc @@ -1,10 +1,9 @@ PXELINUX - Version 1.48 - September 26, 1999 + Version 1.49 A bootloader for Linux using the PXE network booting protocol - Copyright (C) 1999 H. Peter Anvin + Copyright (C) 1994-2000 H. Peter Anvin This program is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your option, any later version. There is no @@ -46,11 +45,11 @@ server in the following way: in upper case hexadecimal, e.g. 192.0.2.91 -> C000025B. If that file is not found, it will remove one hex digit and try - again. For 192.0.2.91, if C000025B is not found, it will try - C000025, C00002, C0000, C000, C00, C0, and C in that order. + again. Ultimately, it will try looking for a file named "default" + (in lower case). - Finally, it will try looking for a file named "default" (in lower - case). + As an example, for 192.0.2.91, it will try C000025B, C000025, + C00002, C0000, C000, C00, C0, C, and default, in that order. It should be noted that all filename references are relative to the directory pxelinux.bin lives in (usually /tftpboot). PXELINUX @@ -220,8 +219,8 @@ dhcpd 2.0. If the boot fails, PXELINUX (unlike SYSLINUX) will not wait forever; rather, if it has not received any input for approximately five minutes after displaying an error message, it will reset the machine. -This allows the machine to recover in case it had bad enough luck of -trying to boot at the same time the TFTP server goes down. +This allows an unattended machine to recover in case it had bad enough +luck of trying to boot at the same time the TFTP server goes down. ++++ PXELINUX IS STILL BETA ++++ @@ -248,3 +247,4 @@ Currently known problems: entry loop, so that we answer ARP requests. + Boot sectors don't work yet... they probably need auxilliary information (such as device) to work at all. +* No way to chain-load onto a hard disk. |