[syslinux] PXE booting

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 6 03:25:30 PST 2003


Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have been using pxelinux with memdisk to boot our workstations with
> our custom floppy, which is a MSDOS boot disk (actually it is win98)
> 
> On one of the PC's I'm testing, a Fujitsu-Siemens which has an AMDtek
> based on-board network card and when PXE is activated, 
> it gets an IP from the DHCP, then it finds the TFTP server, downloads 
> pxelinux.0, executes it which causes the floppy to be downloaded,
> the file is transfered but it just stays there.
> 
> the PXE implementation is:
> 
> BootManage UNDI PXE-2.0 (build 083)
> BootManage PXE-2.0 PROM 1.0 AN983 3.00 SDK 3.0/083 (OEM73)
> (C) bootix gmbh , Licensed to FSC
> 
> Of course it boots with 2000 RIS....
> 
> Besides a broken bios implementation, is there something i can try?
> 

What does your PXELINUX config file look like?  Any messages from PXELINUX?

	-hpa





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