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Hi, I stumbled on a rather odd problem. A brand new HP Compaq dx2200 computer didn't want to boot up pxelinux+memdisk image. The computer just gave "Disk I/O error" and stopped there. Workaround was rather simple... Just attach regular floppy drive to the motherboard and everything started working fine. I tried with older 2.05 (pxelinux+memdisk) an...

...some time now with great success. However, with the recent spawn of virtual machines now supporting PXE boot, has anyone been able to mount the disk in this enviornment? Could someone direct me to any information on how to mount and or partition drives? I have discovered the same issue with the HP DX2200 model of PC. For example if I run fdisk -l it reports nothing, any advise would be a great help, as my linux troubleshooting is lacking in this area. And we would like to explore disk imaging VM's. Thanks! Derek

...ng if issue mentioned here: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-October/007586.html was ever fixed? basically I have the same issue with the same machine. I have 4 different types of PC's here that i'm trying to boot by USB stick. It works fine on 3 of them, but on the 4th, A HP/Compaq dx2200 MT, memdisk will not boot the .ima unless the machine has a floppy drive in it, it just gets to 'loading boot sector... booting...' then a flashing cursor under it. I've tried disabling the floppy controller, setting the a: drive to 'none', using raw and bigraw, but no luck. Th...

...wondering why it seemed 2.88MB floppies work just fine. Most of the floppies that come with UBCD are 1.62 or 2.88, so is it just that my 1.44 floppy image wont work? Perplexed, Rick Carroll Anssi Kolehmainen wrote: > Hi, > > I stumbled on a rather odd problem. A brand new HP Compaq dx2200 computer > didn't want to boot up pxelinux+memdisk image. The computer just gave "Disk I/O > error" and stopped there. Workaround was rather simple... Just attach regular > floppy drive to the motherboard and everything started working fine. > > I tried with older 2...