[syslinux] PxeLinux menu.c32 chaining

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Dec 14 08:33:00 PST 2005


Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:07:17PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Samuel Clements wrote:
>>
>>>I had the Intel 945G board that was having similar problems a few months 
>>>back, but you fixed it. I have recently run across a laptop that seems 
>>>to exhibit the same problem however. With no physical floppy, I get a 
>>>Invalid disk error. With a USB floppy attached, my MS-DOS images boot 
>>>just fine. I can fill you in with the specifics as you'd like...
>>> -Sam
>>>
>>
>>The more details, the better...
> 
> 
> Neither on http://syslinux.zytor.com/hardware.php
> nor on http://syslinux.zytor.com/errors.php
> is a reference to the tool that displays the "?dmi?" information.
> 
> I think it is a good thing to provide the name of the program
> that can display the requested details.
> 

"dmidecode" is the program you're looking for, at least in theory. 
Unfortunately the output is very often just plain wrong.

	-hpa




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