[syslinux] Booting an ISO with FreeDOS over PXE with memdisk

[Per Jessen]

Vanush Misha Paturyan wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:38:42 +0100 Per Jessen <per at computer.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've got $SUBJ almost working except for the DOS bit where the CD
>> needs to be read.
>> 
>> My pxe config:
>> 
>> label Firmware
>>     menu label Update IPMI firmware
>>     kernel memdisk
>>     append keeppxe raw iso  initrd=<isofile>
>> 
>> The ISO is about 400Mb, and works fine when I boot it from an actual
>> CDROM drive.  It also boots fine over PXE, I can see FreeDOS being
>> booted up etc. The problem is - once in DOS, there is no access to
>> the
>> CD.  The CDROM driver doesn't load due to "no cdrom found".  Does
>> this ring a bell with anyone?
> 
> Might be completely on a wrong track, but doesn't memdisk emulate hard
> drive? In which case you should see the content of your isofile as C:
> once FreeDOS boot up, (and CDDRV.SYS won't find any CD devices because
> there isn't one to find).

There is no drive C when DOS is booted, only drive A (with the boot
image from the ISO) - I thought the idea was to emulate the ISO file as
a CD? 



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