[syslinux] Problems booting WinPE ISO

[Greg Treantos]

I posted on the syslinux IRC channel and someone sent me a newer memdisk and
that fixed the issue. RHEL 5.7 came with 3.11-2 and someone posted 4.02
which worked like a charm. Thanks for the replies..

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Shao Miller <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>wrote:

> 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
>
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