[syslinux] PXE booting Dell diagnostics

[Berthold Cogel]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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

I'm using a tftp server on a RHEL 3 system. Filesystem is ext3.


Berthold