[syslinux] PXEboot large image creation

[Gustavo Guillermo Pérez]

El Lunes, 23 de Enero de 2006 23:40, Serge de Souza escribió:
> 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 :
There are more efective ways than using ghost for backup and restoration, just 
compress or uncompress raw images of your cleaned disks or partitions.

:S

> My config just says the following:
> default memdisk
> append initrd=smalldos.img
default gs
label gs
kernel memdisk
append initrd=smalldos.img

> I created the image following
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-August/005573.html (I am unsure
> if these instructions are correct) starting from a usb disk image. The
> usb disk works fine when used to boot the machine.
>
> -dd of the usb drive and using the resulting image does not work.
>
> - dd if=/dev/zero of=smalldos.img bs=1024 count=2880
> mkdosfs smalldos.img
> ms-sys -f -6 smalldos.img
> mount -o loop smalldos.img /mnt
>
> cp /media/usbdisk/* /mnt
>
> then using smalldos.img to boot via pxeboot does not work either.
>
>
> Can anyone suggest the proper way to get this working ?  All I want is a
> pxeboot image that will start ghost8.
>
> Thanks

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Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
Compunauta uLinux
www.compunauta.com