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authorhpa <hpa>2001-04-13 22:07:51 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2001-04-13 22:07:51 +0000
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Add DHCP option to set PXELINUX reset timeout.syslinux-1.62-pre1
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@@ -248,14 +248,20 @@ Option 178 pxelinux.pathprefix
needs to end in whatever character the TFTP server OS uses
as a pathname separator, e.g. slash (/) for Unix.
+Option 179 pxelinux.reboottime
+ - Specifies, in seconds, the time to wait before reboot in the
+ event of TFTP failure. 0 means wait "forever" (in reality,
+ it waits approximately 136 years.)
+
ISC dhcp 3.0 supports a rather nice syntax for specifying custom
options; you can use the following syntax in dhcpd.conf if you are
running this version of dhcpd:
option space pxelinux;
- option pxelinux.magic code 176 = string;
+ option pxelinux.magic code 176 = string;
option pxelinux.configfile code 177 = text;
option pxelinux.pathprefix code 178 = text;
+ option pxelinux.reboottime code 179 = unsigned integer 32;
Then, inside your PXELINUX-booting group or class (whereever you have
the PXELINUX-related options, such as the filename option), you can
@@ -265,6 +271,7 @@ add, for example:
option pxelinux.magic f1:00:74:7e;
option pxelinux.configfile "configs/common";
option pxelinux.pathprefix "/tftpboot/pxelinux/files/";
+ option pxelinux.reboottime 30;
filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux/pxelinux.bin";
Note that the configfile is relative to the pathprefix: this will look