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

[Jesse Nelson < >]

I have an lwrp for doing this but it was pre-library cook era. I am happy to 
push up a bare bones lwrp and some example usage if people are interested. 


On Oct 8, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Matt Ray 
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> 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

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