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

[Jesse Nelson < >]

 I moved the integrated / recipe bits to the examples directory and pushed this code up. This cook has been running in production for some time. Feel free to build on it, and if someone wants to take it over I am happy to give it to ya.

https://github.com/spheromak/pxe-cookbook 

- Jesse 

On Oct 8, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Jesse Nelson < "> > wrote:

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 < "> > wrote:

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
512.731.2218 :: ">
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On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Arnold Krille < "> > 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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