[syslinux] PXELINUX hanging when booting floppy images

[J.H.]

Sean,

You might want to look at PXE Kinfe ( http://pxeknife.erebor.org )
(NOTE: I'm the developer of PXE Kinfe so I'm tooting my own horn here).
As that might save you a lot of time re-inventing the wheel.

One thing to note (as I do a lot of devel with various virtual machines)
is that what might not work in vmware does work on real hardware -
vmware is doing a lot of crazy things and may not be doing quite the
right thing with regard to memdisk + your image.

Do you have a specific disk that we can create on our own and test with
though?

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 16:36 -0600, Sean Davis wrote:
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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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