[syslinux] Pxelinux/memdisk with XP "MS-DOS" boot disk

[Harald Milz]

dpetersen55 at new.rr.com wrote:
> I'm trying to use this universal DOS TCP/IP boot disk available here:
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/
> 
> It requires an MS-DOS formatted disk created by Windows XP.  It works great as a floppy but doesn't boot at all with memdisk.  The problem can be simplified down to just the XP boot disk.  If you make an MS-DOS startup disk with XP on a floppy, dd the floppy to an image file and try to boot it with pxelinux/memdisk, it hangs.  It just says "Starting..." and won't even respond to ctrl+alt+del.  I've booted lots of PC-DOS, MS-DOS, Linux, and BIOS flash disks with no problems, but this one just won't run. 
> 
> Any ideas how to debug this?

Yes - there's a whole plethora of DOS/Windows boot disks on the web
somewhere, and there's a FreeDOS bootdisk with SuSE Linux for example. All
of these images work fine with memdisk. 

XP? Uaaah. 

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