howto use gpxelinux from pxelinux to boot ploplinux faster

[jeff.sadowski]

I downloaded syslinux from kernel.org
I then did a
find -type f -exec grep -Hn pxelinux.cfg {} \;
from the root of the syslinux folder
to find where gpxelinux.0 started look in pxelinux.cfg
it returned

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./syslinux-4.03/core/fs/pxe/pxe.c:1077:    const char *cfgprefix = "pxelinux.cfg/";

I changed it to

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./syslinux-4.03/core/fs/pxe/pxe.c:1077:    const char *cfgprefix = "gpxelinux.cfg/";

recompiled everything
and copyied gpxelinux.0 to
/tftpboot/ploplinux directory
I created a directory /tftpboot/ploplinux/gpxelinux.cfg

I pointed my webservers home directory to /tftpboot/ploplinux

/tftpboot/ploplinux/gpxelinux.cfg/default looks as follows

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default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 300

menu background splash.png

menu title welcome to plop linux

menu color border 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title  1;37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg  40;37 #88888888 #00000000 none
menu color sel  1;37;42 #ffffffff #ff808080 none
menu color unsel  1;40;32 #ff00ff00 #00000000 none


label local
menu label localboot
localboot 0

label linux
menu label plop linux
kernel http://192.168.1.252/kernel/bzImage
initrd http://192.168.1.252/kernel/initramfs.gz
append vga=1 smbmount=//192.168.1.252/ploplinux

label memtest
menu label ^memtest
kernel http://192.168.1.252/memtest


the localboot is just a test for gpxelinux as it fails on more machines than pxelinux's localboot. (I haven't found a machine that pxelinux's localboot fails but I have heard of it.)

and my /tftpboot/ploplinux/pxelinux.cfg/default looks like so

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default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 30

menu background splash.png

menu title welcome to plop linux

menu color border 37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color title  1;37;40 #00000000 #00000000 none
menu color tabmsg  40;37 #88888888 #00000000 none
menu color sel  1;37;42 #ffffffff #ff808080 none
menu color unsel  1;40;32 #ff00ff00 #00000000 none


label local
menu label localboot
localboot 0

label test
menu label test
pxe gpxelinux.0


label linux
menu label plop linux
kernel kernel/bzImage
append initrd=kernel/initramfs.gz vga=1 smbmount=//192.168.1.252/ploplinux


label linuxfb
menu label plop linux framebuffer mode
kernel kernel/bzImage
append initrd=kernel/initramfs.gz vga=0x318 smbmount=//192.168.1.252/ploplinux

menu separator

label hd
menu label ^boot harddisk
localboot 0x80
append -

menu separator

label plp
menu label ^plop boot manager
linux plop/plpbt.bin

label plpinst
menu label plop boot manager installer
linux plop/plpinstc.com

menu separator

label memtest
menu label ^memtest
kernel memtest


[Elmar]

thanks

best regards
elmar