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

[Arnold Krille < >]

Hi,

Am Tue, 8 Oct 2013 17:41:30 -0500 schrieb 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.

I actually use (and like) the pxe_dust cookbook. One of the first
modifications I made was to disable creation of the
pxeconfig.cfg/default file. But more is needed to make that recipe
compatible with other pxe-providing recipes...

I think a recipe doing the basic pxe+syslinux set up would be the first
step. Then the actual menu could be defined either by several calls to
a menu-lwrp or by generating the menu from the nodes attributes, which
would be set/extended by the recipes like my x2go or the pxe_dust...

Actually looking at Jesse Nelsons pxe-cookbook it looks as if this is
what I think is needed. I think I have to test that...
If that proves as usable, it would be nice if opscode took care of it
and also used it in pxe_dust.

Have fun,

Arnold