[syslinux] question regarding pxeboot (kernel memdisk)

[Roger Binns]

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CHEN Xu wrote:
> My machine would report "cannot find kernel: memdisk". When doing a
> tcpdump, I found the machine actually is sending requests for
> "memdisk", "memdisk.c" memdisk.* to the tftp server - of coz, I don't
> have them.

memdisk is part of syslinux.  After building you need to copy it to the
tftp root directory.  There are several other binaries as well such as
menu.c32.  Generally you don't need any of them if you just use a
trivial config file and boot linux, but for your example you do.

Roger


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