[syslinux] memdisk problem

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Apr 11 01:15:35 PDT 2003


Sean Hearne wrote:
> 
> My PXE Server is from kano.org.ok and the bootloader is pxelinux.
> 
> If on the server machine I set the default option to boot a floppy and I
> then reboot the client.
> 
> My "messages" file appears on the client screen and the client waits for
> input. If I just leave it timeout and boot the default option all works fine
> but if I enter an option to boot a floppy image, then more often that not
> the client freezes while loading the floppy image (memdisk has already been
> loaded before the image).
 >

I heard of such a PXELINUX problem that got resolved quite a while ago. 
  You didn't say which version of anything you were running, but I'd 
suggest upgrading PXELINUX and MEMDISK to version 2.03, which were just 
released.

	-hpa



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