similar to: pxelinux & memdisk

Hallo, versuche mit Pxelinux Windows 98 ?ber das Netz zu laden. Hierzu verwende ich Memdisk und ein Imgage einer funktionierenden Startdiskette (1,44 MB). Memdisk und das Image werden korrekt geladen. Auch startet die Autoexec.bat korrekt. Beim Start von Windows bricht das System allerdings ab. Mein Verdacht ist, dass es an dem noch im Speicher stehenden Memdisk liegt. Gibt es eine M?glichkeit

Hi, I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos tcp/ip connect to windows network. I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable floppy. But when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead show a multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't work. Pls help Jitender

I have a USB flash drive that I'd like to image, and then load that image via pxelinux and memdisk. The flash drive was formatted under Windows 98 SE as FAT, and boots just fine on its own. The PXE boot process gets as far as loading the image via memdisk, but then when the boot process switches over to the RAM disk, it fails: [...PXE diagnostic information...] Loading boot

Hi Peter, I'm using isolinux and memdisk to create a multiboot rescue cd for personal use as described on Bart's page (www.nu2.nu). One boot item is to boot DOS 7.1 from Win98SE with a lot of other staff for emergencies. This DOS bootimage puts all necessary stuff into it's own ramdisk (XMSDSK). Some progs on the ramdisk needs access to floppy drive A: and unfortunately I've no

I'm trying to use this universal DOS TCP/IP boot disk available here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/ It requires an MS-DOS formatted disk created by Windows XP. It works great as a floppy but doesn't boot at all with memdisk. The problem can be simplified down to just the XP boot disk. If you make an MS-DOS startup disk with XP on a floppy, dd the floppy to an image

Hello ALL, I've got a diskless server working (under Gentoo), booting on it works. (a linux session start with no problem.) My Big problem, is to get Memdisk to boot with PXE. In fact memdisk is loaded, but it cannot find the img file. I've tried a lot of thing, but nothing works... tftp use : /diskless the config file for PXE in then in : /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/ the root for the

Hi, I have successfully downloaded a Win98 DOS image with the use of MEMDISK under SYSLINUX booting from A:. However, when I run Win98 from local hard disk C:, it fails. It probably has to do with the memory allocation of your MEMDISK. Could I know whether I could delete the MEMDISK at A: Or How I can fix the problem? The etherboot package has a utility called rmrd.com, which removes the

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I don't know where else to ask about memdisk. I'm trying to use memdisk + pxelinux with a DOS boot image, is this possible? It works great with redhat and debian install floppy images, but my freedos, and win98 boot disk just won't boot! Is there some special way to prepare a dos image other than doing a sys a: or format a: /s in DOS, and then dd-ing it

Hi all, We are hoping to update our BIOSes remotely with pxelinux and memdisk (it is for a 600 node Beowulf cluster with no floppy access). The DOS floppy loads and starts, however somehow the flash utility 'phlash.exe' or 'phlash16.exe' are both unable to load the provided rom image and just stop doing nothing. It looks like it can't access the rom image somehow, which is

tom & peter Hi Guys, I have a little problem I'm hoping you can help me with. When I try to boot toms image, memdisk states a "fractional end sector" while loading the image. It continues with the process until I get a "Booting..." prompt and then freezes. Here's the whole story: A while back I acquired version tomsrtbt 2.0.103, to make a multi-image boot cd as

Peter: Just wanted to report yet another happy customer for ISOLINUX. Have been using it successfully for several months as the loader/menu for my bootable CD/DVD projects. ISOLINUX isn't nearly as quirky as GRUB and given the latest improvement on the documentation front, I even have the graphical splssh+menu I looked to GRUB for. Thank you very much. I have one observation and

Hi, I saw the Nov. 2006 message on Memdisk having a problem with ThinkPads. I also saw the comment in the memdisk code enabling and disabling A20. I've got a ThinkPad x61t that memdisk is not loading disk images on. The symptom is that it gets as far as saying "Loading boot sector... booting..." Then image partially runs - FreeDOS prints out its kernel message and it's

Hello all I have installed "syslinux" as follows: Microsoft(R) Windows 98 (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999. C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s C:\WINDOWS>format o: /s WARNING, ALL DATA ON DISK DRIVE O: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?y Checking existing disk format. Formatting 967.98M Format complete. System transferred Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

This isn't an esp urgent issue, but I'd like to use a certain RAM diagnostic (Doc Mem) which I've already posted a note about a couple of months ago. Simply won't work booting the floppy disk image via MEMDISK. In the interim, I've tried to resolve this by changing things on my side. I'm pretty sure it's a XMS incompatibility, as it fails differently depending on

Hi, I've successfully got DOS booting over PXE with Memdisk, but as RAM is severely limited in the PCs I'm using (only 32-64MB) I can't load a huge Memdisk image to run large DOS programs, Windows, etc. Are there any programs out there like Memdisk, but instead of storing the disk in RAM they read it over the network? (A "netdisk" program.) This would be a really useful

hello and thanks for reading this, with the help of this group so far, i am using bootscriptor from bootscriptor.org combined with memdisk to boot a win98 boot disk. it boot into the windows98 version of dos. the cool thing about the floppy is that it has a compressed image that mounts as a drive letter. much like linux. i can create floppy images no problem. what i am trying to do is create a

2018-06-26 2:10 GMT+08:00 H. Peter Anvin via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com>: > On 06/18/18 13:06, R S via Syslinux wrote: >> The narod.ru images are super outdated (FreeDOS kernel 2028) unfortunately. >> >> If you are interested I could provide a 5MB FDD image template based on >> FreeDOS 2041 kernel (the latest available at that time in 2014) where you >>

Sensei H. Peter Anvin, I have successfully modified/enhanced memdisk so that one can chainload a local operating system after running diskless FreeDOS. I would like your advice regarding the appropriate interface for invoking this functionality. In addition, I would like to know what steps to take so that you feel comfortable considering including this in the standard syslinux distribution.

hello and thanks for reading this, i am doing a volunteer project for a school in harlem,ny. they have had donated 30 nics computers from thinknic.com. it can pxe boot. it had a cdrom and it has no hard drive. i am looking for ways to boot windows98 on these machines. i read on some site that memdisk can be used on legacy os. before i spend days testing it out, is it possible to boot windows98

Hi SysLinux, i'm using pxelinux.0 and memdisk to successfully boot dos on my PXE capable workstation. But aber the DOS boot I need to get access to Drive A: again. My DOS bootimage is putting all necessary stuff into it's own RAMdisk. How can I disable memdisk, so that it releases drive A: (does not necessarily free the allocated memory for it's RAMdisk ..) with kind regards / mit