[syslinux] Problem trying to chainload Intel pxe boot loader

[Wout Mertens]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Wout Mertens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use pxelinux to start Linux and optionally other things,
> > maintained by windows folks. They use the Intel pxe boot loader, bstrap.0,
> > and when I load it with a "kernel bstrap.0" statement, it fails.
> >
> > The reason it fails is because it can't find the !PXE data area. I guess
> > it doesn't get the correct pointer or something along those lines.
> >
> > Do you think it would be easy to preserve the structure and pass it on to
> > other pxe loaders?
>
> What happens if you try to boot bstrap.0 directly on that machine?

Funny you should ask. It doesn't work :*)

Turns out that the discovery control option had bit 3 turned off so that
it wouldn't download that bstrap.0 file I was using.

I have a working version now, and it works just fine, chainloading and
all. Good work :).

Thanks,

Wout.