[syslinux] pxelinux and booting dos

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Feb 5 13:27:01 PST 2003


Derek Tattersall wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I have got pxelinux booting a DOS ramdisk via the memdisk program from the
> command line.  However I am having a problem getting it to use the
> configuration file.  pxelinux find the configuration directory,
> pxelinux.cfg and then finds the file, C0A801, and reads the file, but no
> matter what I put on my
> "kernel" line, it looks for a kernel named "linux".  When I create a sofft
> link from memdisk to linux, it loads memdisk, but doesn't parse the
> "append" line.
> 
> My config file looks like:
> label warmboot
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=warmboot.img keeppxe
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?
> 

You need a "default warmboot" line.

	-hpa





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