[syslinux] pxelinux / memdisk booting problem

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Nov 1 16:26:51 PST 2002


Michael Blandford wrote:
> I have been using pxelinux for quite a while to automagically build
> linux boxes with great success.  Thanks to everyone involved!
> 
> Now, I am trying to download a floppy image and get that to boot.
> 
> My conf file looks like:
> 
> default sir4
> label sir4
>     kernel ia32/memdisk
>     append initrd=ia32/sir4/floppy.img
> 
> Everything starts off fine.
> pxelinux loads
> I see it get the conf file.
> gets memdisk
> get floppy.img
> loads memdisk
> ......
> Disk is floppy
> .....
> INT 13 08: Sucess, count=1 BPT=f000:b6cc
> old: ....
> new: ...
> Booting...
> 
> Nothing happens after that.
> 

Please post all the messages, not a truncated abstract.

	-hpa





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