[syslinux] pxe floppy

William Estrada MrUmunhum at popdial.com
Sat Nov 4 05:31:21 PST 2006


John,

  I will try Etherboot.   Thanks for your time.

William Estrada

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J.H. wrote:
> pxelinux.0 can only be loaded and run from within the PXE stack, as it
> depends on things that are present there that aren't present anywhere
> else.  So basically you can only load and run pxelinux.0 when it's run
> from the network, running it from a floppy won't work.
> 
> If you are trying to get a floppy to boot and than load a pxe stack (if
> your network card doesn't have one) take a look at etherboot which will
> load a pxe stack from a floppy and than boot the network.
> 
> - John
> 
> 




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