[syslinux] [memdisk] remote booting diskless Mini-ITX system

Alexander Heinz mailsanmich at gmx.li
Tue Jan 11 15:19:31 PST 2005


> As the subject suggests, I am trying to remote boot a Mini-ITX system. I 
> am using PXELinux as the bootloader,
> and Memdisk (2.11) as the 'kernel'. My ramdisk image is a hard drive 
> image based on PC-DOS.
> 
> Two things go wrong during the boot process.
> 
> 1. "INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive" message
> 
> 2. "Loading boot sector... booting..." message, but system stalls and 
> nothing actually boots.

I had the same problem with a 2.88MB floppy image and PXELinux 3.05.

Try version 3.06! It worked for me...

Alex





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