[syslinux] MEMDISK not working on Thinkpads

[Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com]

Hello Ferenc,

I tried IBM Feature Tool 2.09 on a Thinkpad T43 (model 1871-w4a)  via PXE.
No problems at all.

I used the Image from
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#FeatureTool

The corresponing lines in my pxelinux configfile looks like:

LABEL ftool
   MENU LABEL IBM Feature Tool 2.09
   kernel [path to memdisk from tftp root]/memdisk
   append initrd=[path to bootimage]/ftool209.img

I didn't made any changes to the bootfile except renaming it from
ftool_209_install.IMG to ftool209.img.

Peter Leenders



                                                                           
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Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com writes:

> we use quite often memdisk to boot DOS from floppy images via PXE on
> IBM/lenovo Thinkpads. We have no trouble with thinkpad at all and we use
a
> lot of different thinkpad modells (mostly newer ones) but also some older
> modells.
>
> Are you shure that nothing is wrong with your Image. If you boot DOS via
> PXE and you use himem make shure you have the /testmem:off switch set in
> the config.sys.
> What is the OS you're booting via memdisk? If you use ME make you use
> bigraw in your SYSlinux/PXELINUX/ISOLINUX-configfile when invoking
memdisk.

See http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2007-December/009291.html for
example.  But others also had similar problems.  If you could try
booting the same images on your models, I would be interested to hear
the results.  I routinely use memdisk to boot other machines, and most
of the time it indeed works perfectly well.
--
Regards,
Feri.

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