[syslinux] PXE booting Dell diagnostics
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 20 08:36:17 PDT 2006
Berthold Cogel wrote:
>
> I've copied the files to the appropriate positions and created this entry:
>
> LABEL diag32
> MENU LABEL Dell Diagnostics
> KERNEL memdisk
> APPEND initrd=tests/diags.img
>
>
> But it doesn't work as expected. All I get during the boot is:
>
> Loading memdisk...
> Could not find ramdisk image: tests/diags.img
> boot:
>
> And then the menu executes the default entry after a timeout.
>
> My suspicion is that I have to modify the image somehow, because I can
> boot a DOS disk image and other tools (memdisk, ...) without a problem.
> But I haven't found a clue in the mailinglist archive until now.
>
> I'm using syslinux-3.31 from kernel.org.
>
You're not saying what medium you're using, but if you're using a FAT
filesystem, syslinux doesn't support subdirectories at this time.
-hpa
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