[syslinux] keeppxe+memdisk+FreeDOS example?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Oct 5 07:35:15 PDT 2007


d tbsky wrote:
> 2007/9/21, Bernd Blaauw <bblaauw at home.nl>:
>> It seems strange, but the best way to get things working initially is to
>> get the DOS drivers for your specific network card working, rather than
>> the universal ones.  Later on  you can make the bootdisk more generic by
>> switching to UNDIS3C driver.  Eric Auer from the FreeDOS  project has
>> some tools on his website, mainly to get arguments from the syslinux
>> commandline, to see if KEEPPXE is present for example. It can be found
>> at http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/
>>
> 
> hi:
>    i want to detect "keeppxe" under dos. i go to Eric Auer's web site
> but can not find such tools. could you tell me which tool can do this?
> or is there any api can do this? i try the method in the comboot
> document(ah=30h,int 21h and ah=01h,int 22h), but it seems can not work
> under dos.
>    thanks for help!!
> 

See the PXE spec for an INT 1Ah call that detects PXE.

	-hpa




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