[syslinux] PXEboot large image creation

Cristi Mitrana cristi.mitrana at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 05:32:11 PST 2006


On 1/24/06, Serge de Souza <serge at cs.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used
> with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result
> in the boot hanging at :
[...]
You could use mkdiskimage from the syselinux package or get a 'big'
ODIN FreeDOS disk
(from http://tinyurl.com/e2dlp for instance) and edit it's contents. I
was able to do a ~8Mb 'floppy' image (I think I had to specify the CHS
to pxelinux, don't have the data at hand).


hth,
--
mitu




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