[syslinux] pxelinux+memdisk experience & problem..

tbsky at annsky.com tbsky at annsky.com
Tue Nov 4 05:57:16 PST 2003


> Hi,
>
> Dirk Haus <sysobpxe at yahoo.de> schrieb am 04.11.03 09:52:54:
>> > >   vmware 4.05 with emboot pxe boot disk,  pxelinux
>> > 2.07 pre5.
>> >
>> > vmware is known broken.
>>
>> do you mean broken in the sense that it does not work
>> with pxelinux or something else?
>
> vmware doesn't handle PXE roms very well, so pxelinux doesn't have
> anything
> to talk to. I don't know if anyone managed to get vmware to boot pxelinux
> clients,
> as far as I know it's still broken. So please take some real PC with a
> pxe-capable
> network card and try this first.

   vmware is ok to boot pxelinux. just memdisk can not release
memory. i try other tree real PC with different PXE stack, none can
let memdisk release memory (via internal lan, sis internal lan &
intel internal lan). i will try 3com and intel nic later...

Best Regards,
tbsky






>
> Regards,
>
> Josef
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