[syslinux] Request for built-in DOS launch module
Denie Andriessen
denie at bokxing.nl
Thu Jan 31 10:29:17 PST 2013
Hi Alexander,
Overhere we use a slight different procedure.
We have a freedos PXE image that has network support.
It connects to a share where we collect all the BIOS flash tools.
We run it from there.
Cheers,
Denie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander Perlis" <aperlis at math.lsu.edu>
To: <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:21 PM
Subject: [syslinux] Request for built-in DOS launch module
> To make say a BIOS flash tool available over PXE, my impression is that
> a typical procedure goes like this: modify a generic FreeDOS 1440K disk
> image to contain the EXE and change the AUTOEXEC.BAT to launch that EXE,
> then make the 1440K IMG available on the PXE server. But more recent
> BIOS flash EXE are too large and won't fit on the 1440K, not even 3840K,
> so now we have to look into making a custom FreeDOS ISO image or FreeDOS
> USB stick image or FreeDOS HD image, for which recipes don't seem to be
> readily available. In a changing enterprise environment involving many
> different computer models, you find yourself over time trying to recall
> and repeat these fragile steps of trying to prepare FreeDOS autoexec
> images...
>
> Perhaps there is already a better way available? But if not, it would be
> wonderful if SYSLINUX had a built-in module that automagically
> accomplishes all of the tediousness described above, e.g.:
>
> LABEL biosflash
> KERNEL doslaunch.c32
> INITRD flashtool.exe or files.zip or files.tar.gz
> APPEND exec=flashtool.exe
>
> I would imagine this would do something along the following lines: set
> up a DOS-like environment with an extra drive letter for a growable
> ramdisk, copy the INITRD file or archive (unpacking as necessary) into
> that ramdisk, switching to the ramdisk drive letter, and then launching
> whatever file is listed in the exec parameter.
>
> Does something like that already exist?
>
> Alex
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