[syslinux] Problem: booting stops during "Loading /bzimage...."

Chris Osicki osk at admin.swisscom-mobile.ch
Thu Aug 26 01:52:40 PDT 2004



Thanks for the hint, Pierre.
The only problem is this is a Sun Blade B100x which does have ONLY
network connection, that's all. No USB.

Regards,
Chris

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:22:07 +0200
"Pierre Sangouard" <psangouard at eso-tech.com> wrote:

> > > If I only knew how to do it on a machine without floppy or cdrom and the
> > only way to
> > > boot it is using network :-(
> > You can try booting a floppy dos based image using memdisk :)
> > It may works... If it's the case you can update your bioses by inserting
> > the flash programs inside.
> > 
> > Some bioses also allow to boot up on a usb floppy drive.. It could be a
> > solution to update the bios. I did it on some opterons with success. PXE
> > was broken, I've update like this way.
> 
> You can even boot from an USB key if you don't have an USB floppy drive.
> Good instructions can be found at
> http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php (I've done it
> myself last week).
> 
> Cheers,
> Pierre Sangouard - ESO Technologies
> http://www.eso-tech.com
> 
> 
> 
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