[syslinux] failed when boot the kernel image on the hard disk from syslinux on a floppy

[Vance Turner]

Peter, I am trying to find someone at Microsoft that can speak to the
technical issues of RIS and Windows Deployment Toolkit 2008. Seems they
are clueless as to this in general. I am to the point of pulling my hair
out on this stuff.

With the advent of iSCSI, why can't we just modify pxelinux to be iSCSI
aware, and we can define the CD Images as iSCSI targets on some
directory structure. There we can also point to some generic install
script to fire off the automated installation. Kickstart, and Yast are
already there for Linux RHEL and SUSE, Solaris would fit into this
easily, Windows wouldn't even know it was a network install.

Have you looked into this?

-----Original Message-----
From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:29 AM
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa
Subject: Re: [syslinux] failed when boot the kernel image on the hard
disk from syslinux on a floppy

Sergii Kolisnyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SYSLINUX isn't designed to work that way.
> It can boot kernel only from same filesystem from which it's loaded.
> You need GRUB or GRUB4DOS for your task.
> SYSLINUX can be used to chainload GRUB.
> 

Or just put the kernel and initrd on the syslinux partition and mount it

as /boot.

Now, if you do that, you don't want to put the /boot prefix in the 
syslinux configuration file, since syslinux will see the root *of the 
filesystem* as /.

	-hpa

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