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...onfig file for PXE in then in : /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/ the root for the slaves linux is : /diskless/all/ default in /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/ : ***** PROMPT 1 DEFAULT 0 label 0 kernel /bzImage APPEND ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/diskless/all label 1 kernel /memdisk append initrd=fdos1440.img label 2 kernel /memdisk append initrd=/fdos1440.img label 3 kernel /memdisk append initrd=fd label 4 kernel /memdisk append initrd=/fd ***** The first label it a good one, it boots linux OK. The others are test labels, none works. I copies the fdos1440.img to fd, to see if it was maybe an...

...r into a COM32 module for Syslinux. Might be a bit more usefull than Syslinux -> memdisk -> imagefile -> Smart Boot Manager ( -> 'boot from cd -> cdrom ) I've inserted it into this diskette image: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr1/fdos1440.img That's nice to boot cdroms. There's no way to boot ISOs (yet?). A Linux floppy with kernel+initrd should be able to mount an ISO or ZISOFS file (Knoppix does this for example) To my knowledge, no one has extracted SBM's eltorito stack yet. It would have been usefull as payload for...

isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected Yoper 2.1 --------- ISOLINUX 2.11 2004-08-16 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Extremely broken BIOS detected, last ditch attempt with drive = 9F isolinux: Disk error 01, AX = 4209, drive 9F Boot failed: press a key to retry... Helix 1.5 --------- ISOLINUX 2.04 (Debian, 2003-06-06) isolinux: Loading spec packet failed,