Syslinux - Jul 2002 - mbr to flash

Dear Mr Anvin,

we use SYSLINUX for our industrial embedded devices and it works very good. 
You can see them at www.control.de (EDSP and TRZB) if you want.

Questions 1:
I didnt find out how to put the DOS mbr, delivered with SYSLINUX, to my 
bootdevice. What is the right command?

Question 2:
When I want to use PXELINUX with a BIOS that does not support Network boot via 
PXE is it possible to write a PXE boot stack to a floppy (or flashdisk) to 
use it? OK, Etherboot does work but PXELINUX is more elegant ;-).

Thank you in advance 
-- 

Rene Reichert
IT-Systemelektroniker
+49 - 261 - 92748 - 231
Rene.Reichert at control.de
http://www.control.de

control
Information Technology GmbH
In den Wiesen 38
D-56070 Koblenz

Rene Reichert wrote:
> Dear Mr Anvin,
> 
> we use SYSLINUX for our industrial embedded devices and it works very good.
> You can see them at www.control.de (EDSP and TRZB) if you want.
> 
> Questions 1:
> I didnt find out how to put the DOS mbr, delivered with SYSLINUX, to my 
> bootdevice. What is the right command?
> 
Actually, that one doesn't work unless you have SYSLINUX 2.00-pre6.  The 
command would be:

   dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/XXXXX conv=notrunc
> Question 2:
> When I want to use PXELINUX with a BIOS that does not support Network boot
via
> PXE is it possible to write a PXE boot stack to a floppy (or flashdisk) to 
> use it? OK, Etherboot does work but PXELINUX is more elegant ;-).
Sure, if you have one.

	-hpa