[syslinux] Problems booting WinPE ISO

[Shao Miller]

On 8/3/2011 10:05, Greg Treantos 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

You didn't report your MEMDISK version, but it appears to have been too 
old.  The 'iso' option should not have resulted in "Disk is hard disk 
0".  - Shao