[syslinux] pxeLinux on an Intel SE7501WV2 with 82546EB

[Jay Winks]

Oliver:

Thanks for the input. This particular mobo is one of the ones where that doesn't help; if it does not explicitly detect a floppy at boot,  the BIOS setting will automatically be set to "disabled" for the FDC. Peter says the way to work around is to do an image that emulates HDD. Since I'm doing the installs in a RIS-like manner (all the extra boot files on network share as opposed to needing floppy) this may work.

Thanks, HPA!

VR
Jay Winks

-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Schiff [mailto:oliver.schiff at schlund.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:09 AM
To: Jay Winks; syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: RE: [syslinux] pxeLinux on an Intel SE7501WV2 with 82546EB


 
> 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.