Hi all, I try to boot an msdos system using pxelinux and memdisk on my PC engines Wrap-2.c card and I have problems with it This is what I see: PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter A boot: msdos Loading memdisk.... Loading images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim......................... Ready. dp83815: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. MEMDISK 3.11 Copyright 2001-2005 H. Peter Anvin e820: 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 1 e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2 e820: 00000000fff00000 0000000000100000 2 e820: 0000000000100000 0000000007f00000 1 Ramdisk at 0x07d61000, length 0x00168000 command line: initrd=images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk Disk is floppy 0, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18 Total size needed = 1899 bytes, allocating 2K Old dos memory at 0x9fc00 (map says 0xa0000), loading at 0x9f400 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x06d6 INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive old: int13 = f000ac5e int15 = f000a60a new: int13 = 9f400008 int15 = 9f400290 Loading boot sector... booting... from then on nothing happens. Can this be a BIOS problem (PC engines uses its own TiniBios) or what else may I try? Thanks Uli
Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
2006-Aug-29 21:54 UTC
[syslinux] problem booting msdos with memdisk
El Lunes, 28 de Agosto de 2006 14:26, Uli Raich escribi?:> Hi all, > I try to boot an msdos system using pxelinux and memdisk on my PC engines > Wrap-2.c card and I have problems with it This is what I see: > PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter A > boot: msdos > Loading memdisk.... > Loading images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim......................... > Ready. > dp83815: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. > MEMDISK 3.11 Copyright 2001-2005 H. Peter Anvin > e820: 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 1 > e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2 > e820: 00000000fff00000 0000000000100000 2 > e820: 0000000000100000 0000000007f00000 1 > Ramdisk at 0x07d61000, length 0x00168000 > command line: initrd=images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk > Disk is floppy 0, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18 > Total size needed = 1899 bytes, allocating 2K > Old dos memory at 0x9fc00 (map says 0xa0000), loading at 0x9f400 > 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x06d6 > INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive > old: int13 = f000ac5e int15 = f000a60a > new: int13 = 9f400008 int15 = 9f400290 > Loading boot sector... booting... > > from then on nothing happens. > Can this be a BIOS problem (PC engines uses its own TiniBios) or what else > may I try? Thanks UliIt happens to me with some hardware, like using sis900 eth. card and sometimes with no real floppy unit on older compaqs. :) -- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com
Try using grub4dos. I have had exactly the same problem as you on all IBM Thinkpad machines with syslinux's memdisk - Dell machines work fine though. I reported this problem almost 2 years ago but no solution was found then. Use grub4dos v 0.4.1 - it is the most stable at the moment. Here is an example syslinux.cfg: default grub.exe --config-file="map --mem dosfloppy.gz (fd0); map --hook; chainloader (fd0)+1; rootnoverify (fd0); boot" Good luck, Quinn On 8/28/06, Uli Raich <Uli.Raich at cern.ch> wrote:> Hi all, > I try to boot an msdos system using pxelinux and memdisk on my PC engines Wrap-2.c card and I have problems with it > This is what I see: > PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter A > boot: msdos > Loading memdisk.... > Loading images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim......................... > Ready. > dp83815: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. > MEMDISK 3.11 Copyright 2001-2005 H. Peter Anvin > e820: 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 1 > e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2 > e820: 00000000fff00000 0000000000100000 2 > e820: 0000000000100000 0000000007f00000 1 > Ramdisk at 0x07d61000, length 0x00168000 > command line: initrd=images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk > Disk is floppy 0, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18 > Total size needed = 1899 bytes, allocating 2K > Old dos memory at 0x9fc00 (map says 0xa0000), loading at 0x9f400 > 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0x06d6 > INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive > old: int13 = f000ac5e int15 = f000a60a > new: int13 = 9f400008 int15 = 9f400290 > Loading boot sector... booting... > > from then on nothing happens. > Can this be a BIOS problem (PC engines uses its own TiniBios) or what else may I try? > Thanks Uli > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >