[syslinux] question regarding pxeboot (kernel memdisk)

[CHEN Xu]

I see. I thought I thought the file is not needed, since no online
discussion actually mentioned it...
Thanks!

-Simon

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Roger Binns <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote:
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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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