[syslinux] [off topic] gpxelinux bartpe

[Jeff Sadowski]

I am using windows xp sp3 source for bartpe
ramdisk.sys is in the drivers folder
Im using the memdisk that came with syslinux 4.0 I will upgrade
shortly but unless there where any changes it will be the same.

the error windows throws is
[quote]
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.

If this the first time you've seen this stop error screen,
restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow
these steps:

Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed
hard drives or hard drive controllers. Check your hard drive
to make sure it is properly configured and terminated.
Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then
restart your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0xFE532528,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
[/quote]

the same iso boots flawlessly if inserted as a burned iso but I'd like
to go completely disk-less (including removing all cds).

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to boot bartpe from gpxelinux
> I'm using gpxelinux and memdisk.
>
> my pxelinux.cfg/default looks as follows
>
> LABEL bartpe
> kernel memdisk
> initrd http://<path to iso>
> append iso raw
>
>
> Both of these I think I have working correctly. So my question I guess
> is for people that may have done this?
>
> Anyways I see the bartpe load screen then the xp load screen and then
> it blue screens. Reading the memdisk homepage I suspect that windows
> is tramping over memdisk. I read on the memdisk page that there are
> two things to deal with this and I can't find one. the other looks
> like it is already installed so I need to figure out what else might
> be going wrong.
>
> The two methods I see listed on memdisk page
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK
> are WinVBlock and ramdisk
>
> WinVBlock driver I could not find I have been looking on the forum
> pointed too but I can't find any links
>
> ramdisk is supposidly enabled in the bartpe modules so this seems not
> to be working however i will double check for this tomorrow.
>
>
> I tried the tftp method and that will not work since it would take
> more than 4 hours to load the iso (only 140MB)
> udp traffic sucks on my network.
>