[syslinux] floppy image issues

[Luis.F.Correia]

Hi! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Karsten [mailto:carl at personnelware.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:36 PM
> To: Luis.F.Correia
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] floppy image issues
> 
> Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> > 
> > I have had some troubles in the past trying to make equipment to 
> > boot a floppy with MS-DOS that also used ms networking to access
> > the network.
> 
> Using keeppxe or NIC .dos drivers loaded by \net\net initialize?

.dos drivers and using net initialize

> 
> > 
> > Particularly the Gateway GSX 500 cannot have the onboard NIC with
> > PXE enabled, as it eats about 92k of highmemory, which in turn
> > makes impossible to start Windows XP setup due to low memory.
> 
> Is the 92k used even when you don't boot from pxe?  Like if the dhcp 
> server does not return a filename="pxelinux.0"?

Yes, as long as the pxe BIOS option is enable.

> 
> > 
> > On that particular machine I had to disable PXE boot in order to
> > make the damn thing boot my floppy.
> 
> I am curious what happens if you pxeboot sbm, then have that 
> boot your 
> floppy.

I'm lost here... what is sbm exactly?

> 
> 
> Carl K
> 

BTW, I no longer have access to that machine type, so I can't do any tests.

Luis Correia