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So, basically if I am using pxe driver, I would "have to" provide
pxelinux.0?

On 12/09/2014 03:24 PM, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> You probably want to use the agent driver, not the pxe one. It lets you use bootloaders from the image.
>
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> From: Peeyush Gupta
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 10:55:39 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] How to get past pxelinux.0 bootloader?
>
> Hi all,
>
> So, I have set up a devstack ironic setup for baremetal deployment. I
> have been able to deploy a baremetal node successfully using
> pxe_ipmitool driver. Now, I am trying to boot a server where I already
> have a bootloader i.e. I don't need pxelinux to go and fetch kernel and
> initrd images for me. I want to transfer them directly.
>
> I checked out the code and figured out that there are dhcp opts
> available, that are modified using pxe_utils.py, changing it didn't
> help. Then I moved to ironic.conf, but here also I only see an option to
> add pxe_bootfile_name, which is exactly what I want to avoid. Can anyone
> please help me with this situation? I don't want to go through
> pxelinux.0 bootloader, I just directly want to transfer kernel and
> initrd images.
>
> Thanks.
>
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