[syslinux] Boot Failed: please change disks...

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Oct 7 15:08:43 PDT 2003


fetak at comcast.net wrote:
> I had to create a single floppy image holding the kernel and initrd of SuSe8.0 distibution. When I boot the computer, it first loads the kernel, and starts loading the initrd.  After a short while it halts saying “Boot Failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.”  
> 
> The floppy image is served by a PXE server, so I am not sure if the problem I am facing has anything to do with “bad floppy.”
> 

a) How big is your ramdisk (in bytes)?
b) Please post *all* messages output by PXELINUX.
c) What TFTP server are you running, on which platform?

	-hpa





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