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

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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?
> 

d) Are there any log messages from your TFTP server.

You're getting the message because the TFTP server aborted the
connection, or at least PXELINUX thinks that it did.

	-hpa