[syslinux] Problems booting WinPE ISO

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:05, Greg Treantos <gtreanto at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have set up a RHEL 5.7 PXE server and trying to get a WinPE ISO to work.
> Currently PXE seems to handle the image properly but the process stops after
> Loading boot sector... booting... Full list of what is going on.
>
> Ramdisk at 0x72b9c00, length 0x0a680000
> command line: iso initrd=../images/windows/winpe_x86.iso
> BOOT_IMAGE=../memdisk
>
> Disk is hard disk 0, 170496 K C/H/S = 340992/1/1
> Total size needed = 2091 bytes, allocating 3K
> Old dos memory at 0x9bc00 (map says 09c00), loading at 09b00
> 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 03c00 0x71b9
> INT 13 08: Success, count = 1, BPT = 0000:0000
> old: int13 = f000827c  int15  = f000cebe
> new: int13 = 9b000008  int15  = 9b000290
> Loading boot sector... booting...
>
> I burned the WinPE ISO onto a CD and was able to boot the server fine.
> I'm using syslinux.x86_64 3.11-4 that came with RHEL 5.7
>
> --
> Greg

You need the ISO parameter
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#ISO_images requiring
at least 3.84 and probably other adjustments
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/MEMDISK#Windows_NT.2F2000.2FXP.2F2003.2FVista.2F2008.2F7_.28NT_based.29

-- 
-Gene