[syslinux] boot disk failure

[Andrew Stuart]

Pascal Legrand wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i've got a problem with boot pxe on pc, all my pc works fine except in a room 
> where all the same pc doesnt works :
> my configuration (dhcp tftp etc...) works fine also
> 
> here is a part of my tftpboot directory
> 
> ghost/
> memdisk
> menu.c32
> pxelinux.0
> pxelinux.cfg/
> 
> ./ghost:
> ghost288.IMA
> ghost_geii_101.IMA
> ghost_MM.IMA
> ghost_MM.IMA.old
> 
> ./pxelinux.cfg:
> default
> 
> here is a part of my default file
> 
> DEFAULT menu.c32
> 
> TIMEOUT 300
> ALLOWOPTIONS 0
> PROMPT 0
> 
> MENU TITLE MENU
> 
> LABEL BootNormal
>          MENU LABEL Boot local
>          MENU DEFAULT
>          LOCALBOOT 0
> 
> LABEL ghost
>          MENU LABEL Ghost
>          kernel memdisk
>          append initrd=ghost/ghost288.IMA
> 
> LABEL ghost_GEII
>          MENU LABEL Ghost GEII-101
>          kernel memdisk
>          append initrd=ghost/ghost_geii_101.IMA
> 
> LABEL ghost_multimedia
>          MENU LABEL Ghost Multi-Media
>          kernel memdisk
>          append initrd=ghost/ghost_MM.IMA
> 
> 
> when the pc boot, the dhcp request works fine, the "download" of ghost288.ima, 
> works fine also.
> when it try to launch the os i've got a message :
> 
> loading memdisk...
> loading ghost/ghost_geii_101.ima..............ready
> memdisk 3.70
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> ...
> .
> loading boot sector...booting...
> Boot disk failure
> 

You may try 3.71-pre4 which has some patches? workarounds? in memdisk 
for systems with out a floppy drive, but may also fix issues with 
machines with floppies. Please make sure to upgrade pxelinux.0 / memdisk 
to the same version.

Otherwise please provide more information about the system, and the 
debugging lines spit out by memdisk.

HTH

-Andrew