[syslinux] PXELINUX hanging when booting floppy images

Sean Davis sdavis at serverbeach.com
Wed Mar 7 14:36:49 PST 2007


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I am trying to create a PXE setup with floppy images for all needed
utilities - for example, BIOS flash for various motherboards, disk
diagnostic tools, memtest86+, etc.

I've gotten memtest86+ to work (using the .bin), and some of the disk
images work - however, some disk images will not boot. All of the images
were pulled from working, bootable floppies. I've tried with and without
the floppy, raw, bigraw, c/h/s options - same result every time, it
starts loading DOS, then hangs.

I'm testing these in VMware Server if that helps - it explains why the
drive tests bomb when I actually try to test the "hard drive," at least.

If anyone could offer any advice, I would appreciate it.

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Sean Davis
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