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

[Matt Ray < >]

I was just talking with someone about adding a boot menu to the
pxe_dust cookbook to let you choose which boot option you wanted.
pxe_dust already supports PXE booting different flavors of Debian and
Ubuntu at a time, adding more choices _should_ be fairly
straightforward. I'd be happy to help sort it out for you if you're
interested.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Cloud Integrations Product Lead :: Opscode
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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Arnold Krille 
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 wrote:
> 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