[syslinux] Slightly OT: Anyone got a PXE bootable HDD low level format tool?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 14 14:07:46 PDT 2007


Andrew Stuart wrote:
> Tim Bates wrote:
>> Slightly off topic, but does anyone have a utility for low level 
>> formating Maxtor ATA hard disks that can be booted from PXELinux (either 
>> as some kind of binary or as a floppy image)?
>>
>> I just went to get the official tools, but they only have a floppy 
>> creator (which won't help me in Linux, or without a floppy drive) and a 
>> CD ISO. And it seems 99% of 3rd party software is unhelpfully the same 
>> (or is a Windows program).

Floppy creators are a pain in the arse.  You sometimes can run the
floppy creator in a VM, and then run the disk image under MEMDISK.

CD ISOs are better, at least with a CD-ROM you can run them, but they
generally aren't netbootable.

	-hpa




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