[syslinux] Re: Memdisk and hard drive images

anutma at cmsd.bc.ca anutma at cmsd.bc.ca
Tue Dec 24 11:34:04 PST 2002


>So far I found I can only tftp max 32meg image, so I switched to
> using 
> > the local hdd, but after memdisk loads the image I get the 
> > not bootable error
> 
> PXELINUX has no such 32 MB limitation (it pretty much implies a bug in 
> either GRUB or your TFTP server.)

Thx I look ito that I am using atftpd for the server

> Use dd if=/dev/hda of=winimage.img instead.

Great it worked. What I did to get a 114meg image (win partition is 105meg) as 
my drive is 20gig

dd if=/dev/hda of=winimage.img bs=1024 count=117184

Thx for you quick response. And your great software!! it really is a life save for us.

Andrew





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