[chef] Common infrastructure for pxe-bootmenus with syslinux?

[Arnold Krille < >]

Hi all,

while preparing some new cookbooks for our needs (shameless plug: [1] &
[2]), I noticed a thing:

There are several cookbooks that set up tftp+syslinux to allow to boot
machines over network to install things or run certain systems.
But the current approach of "every cookbook defines the whole
bootmenu / pxeconfig" makes it impossible to use two of these recipes
together. So for me its not possible to have one pxe server configured
by chef provide a boot menu with entries for x2go thin clients and
ubuntu/debian installs at the same time.
So some recipe/lwrp to configure a common menu and allow plugging of
menus would be in order. Is anyone interested in such a thing?
I will probably start to write one soon, but if there is public
interest a) I can convince my boss that writing this on company time
is good and b) more input from others is always nice.

Have a nice day,

Arnold

[1] X2Go-thinclient-environment:
https://github.com/kampfschlaefer/x2go-cookbook
[2] Clonezilla-Live booting over network:
https://github.com/bcs-de/clonezillalive-cookbook

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