[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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