[syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs

[Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz]

Hello,

I am a *nix newbie

I am trying to boot a DOS boot disk using PXE (to Ghost on windows 
images).

We have an existing PXE server which successfully serves out PXElinux and 
Fedora builds based on that but my floppy disk image with memdisk isn't 
working

I have tried a few different floppy images which people have posted as 
ones that work for them but I doubt the disk is the problem as the hang 
occurs before memdisk itself seems to have even loaded:

Loading memdisk.....
Loading image.img .............
Loading Ready

and then nothing more....

I only found one other post with the same symptoms.
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2002-April/000346.html

The guy who set up the server says that the versions of isolinux etc are 
the latest.



This is from my config file (I tried all these variations but the same 
result):


label 20
  kernel memdisk keeppxe
  append initrd=test.ima floppy

label test
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/bart.img keeppxe

label a
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/net.img floppy

label b
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy

label c
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/net.img raw

label d
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/netlg.ima raw

label e
  kernel memdisk
  append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy raw


Any ideas much appreciated!

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