On Wednesday 11 April 2007 17:04, Magiclouds Magicloud wrote: > Dear all, > I want to make a custom pxelinux for our product....
If you don't know the answer to your question, I have some concerns about your ability to customise any of the three to any great extent. pxelinux is a boot manager, it's loaded over the LAN using the built-in ability of many network cards (and particularly those built into recent motherboards), using DHCP to find an IP address, a server address and a file name. pxelinux then reads some more file and presents a menu, somewhat as grub does. isolinux is from the same family as pxelinux, but boots directly from a CD. Other than that, it's very like pxelinux. Neither is very useful for very long. Both are small programs, neither fulfills any role performed by the Linux kernel, but rather include amongst their capabilities the ability to load one amongst several Linux kernels. The Linux kernel, of course, is the guts of any Linux distro: it includes drivers for all the hardware you have, routines to share use of system resources such as RAM, CPU, disk and so on. It used to be able to be booted directly by the BIOS - that might still be possible with 2.6 kernels - but the process is inflexible and rarely used. btw Grub, with which you are more familiar, also is able to be used to boot Linux (and other operating systems) from CD - I just created a CD for that purpose a few minutes ago. Grub too, is a small program. Perhaps you should explain in some detail what you want to do - too often, people ask how to do something (and people ask them) when they really should be outlining a problem and asking for suggestions on how to solve the problem. > > Thanks. -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
