From 79113b63e80e5dba49c8f251d6ae2480962e88b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gene Cumm Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:45:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] doc/pxelinux.txt: Info on gPXE-enhanced binaries --- doc/pxelinux.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/pxelinux.txt b/doc/pxelinux.txt index 47aea90..69c1a64 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 -- 2.7.4