[syslinux] load pxelinux w/o PXE BIOS?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri May 30 09:53:01 PDT 2003


hm at seneca.muc.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to load pxelinux as a second stage bootloader from a machine
> which does not have a PXE BIOS (namely, from a VMware guest machine) in
> order to perform an automated Linux installation. A boot floppy would
> be nice. It seems that there are some commercial solutions around but
> is there someting in the OSS arena?  I've been googling for it for some
> time but no luck.
> 

http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php

Look for "PXE stack on a floppy"

However, I thought at least current versions of VMWare had a PXE support 
you could enable.

	-hpa




More information about the Syslinux mailing list