On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:01:31AM +0100, Andreas Schockenhoff wrote: <snip/> > Etherboot die neuste Version macht auch PXE Indeed recent versions of EtherBoot do "PXE". <rant about="PXE" remark="the story continues :-)"> But PXE, Pre eXecution Environment, is a sick marketing joke. Where enviroment means mixing BIOS code with a (properity) network protocol. You don't want tricky BIOS code, you want to do a network boot. </rant> H. Peter Anvin, the author of the bootloaders SYSLINUX and ISOLINUX, wrote also PXELINUX. It does load and start a Linux kernel. It is the stage between "PXE systems" and the kernel. Recent EtherBoot version do support PXELINUX, the bootloader, without tricky BIOS code. > (Leider funktioniert dann > die Automatische PXE oder Etherboot Erkennung nicht mehr). That has nothing to do with EtherBoot, it is in dhcpd.conf on tjener. Cheers Geert Stappers
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