Am 31.01.2013 12:01, schrieb Christian Hesse: > The "Arch Linux Netboot Live System" [0] allows to boot Arch Linux install > media directly from internet. At the moment the iPXE image chainloads a > syslinux image providing a graphical menu. The culprit is loading kernel and > initramfs from WAN - tftp is horribly slow if latency increases.
We use HTTP exclusively, no TFTP at all. Slowness in the transfer may be due to the iPXE network driver performance. > My suggestion is to drop syslinux completely and just use iPXE. Latest > development releases from git do have a menu system [1] and iPXE itself is > capable of loading kernel and initramfs via http (or https or whatever you > prefer), decreasing boot time dramatically. We would need to port all config files to iPXE. I am rather comfortable with the syslinux syntax and we use similar configurations as the CD. Other than more maintenance effort for me, I do not see an advantage in using iPXE over pxelinux.
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