document updated 15 years ago, on Mar 1, 2010
- at least as of SLAX v6.1.2, the stock initrd contains all drivers needed to fetch the modules (*.lzm) over httpfs
- in SLAX v6.1.2 specifically, the boot option "Slax as PXE server" has a major bug that prevents it from operating correctly when used with gPXE
- this is due to passing the parameter "tftproot" to pxelinux... most other PXE clients don't pass this parameter to pxelinux
- a short-term workaround is to create the file /etc/dnsmasq.conf, put these lines in it, and re-run /boot/pxelinux.cfg/start
dhcp-option-force=208,f1:00:74:7e # pxelinux.magic -- without this, the rest of the lines will be ignored
dhcp-option-force=210,/ # pxelinux.pathprefix