Understanding Syslinux,syslinux and Pxelinux

In the course of research on the web-installed, vegetable plots were tortured by syslinux, Syslinux and Pxelinux definitions.

What are their differences and connections? Why is configuration pxelinux to install syslinux instead of Pxelinux? Finally found the answer in the Syslinux wiki.

Syslinux is a project that contains the following bootloader:

1. SYSLINUX, for MS-DOS FAT filesystems

2. Pxelinux, for network booting

3. Isolinux, for bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs

4. Extlinux, for Linux EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 or Btrfs filesystems

5. Memdisk, for legacy operating systems (such as DOS) from nontraditional media

The network started using the natural pxelinux, and we downloaded the release installation package is the entire syslinux Project, so the network installed the need to use the pxelinux.0 is the Yum install syslinux obtained.

There is a very familiar isolinux, this in the system installation CD can be found, and the network installed the need for Pxelinux.cfg/default is copy isolinux.cfg directly generated. The reason can be so capricious to change the name of the use, because for all the Syslinux bootloader, its basic configuration is the same (this can be seen in the Syslinux wiki, configuration can refer to the "Syslinux Chinese Introduction").

Understanding Syslinux,syslinux and Pxelinux