[syslinux] pxelinux and booting dos
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Feb 5 13:27:01 PST 2003
Derek Tattersall wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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