[syslinux] pxeLinux on an Intel SE7501WV2 with 82546EB

[Oliver Schiff]

> Jay Winks wrote:
> > 
> > It is also worthy of note that I have discovered that the 
> problem appears to be related to the absence of a floppy 
> drive. The servers I'm using have no floppy disk or CD-ROM 
> (so you can see how I ended up running pxeLinux to get them 
> installed), but I was installing some S/W via a floppy I 
> temporarily hooked up and forgot to remove it when rebooting. 
> To my surprise, the boot image loaded. I thought I had 
> inadvertently fixed something. Then I removed the floppy and 
> it was no go again. So I put the floppy back on and it worked again.
> > 
> 
> A lot of BIOSes seem to have this problem with no floppies in the
> system.  Try using a hard disk image.  At some point I will 
> try to make
> a fix for this, although it's a bit complex since I don't 
> have access to
> a system which fails in this way.
> 
> 	-hpa


I've had this problem as well. Sometimes, it works if a floppy is simply
"enabled" in the BIOS (same place you see your hard drives), no physical
drive needed. Some systmes also need the floppy controller to be enabled
(usually "Integrated peripherials").

Oliver.