similar to: booting CD using memdisk

Hello Peter, is it possible to boot a CD-Image of a bootable CD (no disk emu) via pxe. I've build up the infrastructure to boot normal floppy images via PXE (under W2K and/or Netware). I have a ISO image of the bootable CD (1 tack TAO eltorinto with an a single boot sect -> bootimage is 2kB, ISO image about 600 MB) I suspect that a combination of MEMDISK and PXELINUX with activated UNDI

hi there. I'm trying to boot several OSes floppy images from a cdrom via memdisk. Actually, Linux and FreeBSD boots fine, but, while i'm using the same method, I couldn't get into booting netbsd nor openbsd. The boot process seems to hang up, in those two cases, when the second stage native bootloader try to load the kernel (i'm not absolutely sure about this). The native first

I have been using pxelinux for quite a while to automagically build linux boxes with great success. Thanks to everyone involved! Now, I am trying to download a floppy image and get that to boot. My conf file looks like: default sir4 label sir4 kernel ia32/memdisk append initrd=ia32/sir4/floppy.img Everything starts off fine. pxelinux loads I see it get the conf file. gets memdisk

I have many hp laptops that boot msdos with memdisk + pxelinux perfectly. However, I recently have the need to usb boot msdos with syslinux. And memdisk. When the dos Image loads I get "loading bootsector..." and then it halts. Sometimes I can get "starting ms-dos" but freezes as well. I'm trying to boot clean msdos floppy image created with winimage. I'm using

Hi, As the subject suggests, I am trying to remote boot a Mini-ITX system. I am using PXELinux as the bootloader, and Memdisk (2.11) as the 'kernel'. My ramdisk image is a hard drive image based on PC-DOS. Two things go wrong during the boot process. 1. "INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only drive" message 2. "Loading boot sector... booting..." message,

Hallo, I'm just trying to boot a Clonezilla *.iso (live-20100521-lucid) via PXE; Label clonezilla kernel memdisk append iso raw initrd iso/clonezilla.iso The first step is ok - I see the boot menu of the *.iso. When I choose "Clonezilla live" the system fails with Isolinux: Disk error 02, AX = 4224, drive E0 when I choose "freedos" it fails with

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

I'm having trouble getting memdisk 6.03pre18 to boot large floppies and wondering whether I'm doing something incorrectly. 1) Download http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz 2) gunzip FDOEM.144.gz 3) newmkfloppyimg.sh 8 FDOEM144.img fdoem_8mb.img 4) newmkfloppyimg.sh 9 FDOEM144.img fdoem_9mb.img 5) Use following pxelinux.cfg: LABEL works LINUX syslinux/memdisk INITRD

Hello, I am a *nix newbie I am trying to boot a DOS boot disk using PXE (to Ghost on windows images). We have an existing PXE server which successfully serves out PXElinux and Fedora builds based on that but my floppy disk image with memdisk isn't working I have tried a few different floppy images which people have posted as ones that work for them but I doubt the disk is the problem

I would like to develop a system where by I can boot any of the machines on my system - and select from a menu what I would like that particular client to do. For example, maybe load a bootdisk image from a network share, and boot that. Or boot the first partition on the local disk.

Hi Thanx guys for the help on understanding howto read dmi info! I now have a custom boot menu for install of different linux versions based if they have been installed before (reinstall is ok for users, first install is not), and installquirks like if we detect odd hardware, we add install options to redhat installer so it can install anyhow (for instance hp dc7800 who needs pci=nommconf as

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) and newer 3.31. Both produced

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 just wanted to pass on some information regarding the behavior of memdisk that I was observing. I have been trying to set up pxelinux/memdisk on a network with a series of machines. I am trying to boot a 2.88MB DOS image. This image worked fine on all but one of our machines. The machine had a usb floppy device. Now the machine would boot the DOS image fine if the usb floppy device was

Has anybody tried to boot a dos disk via memdisk with a usb flash device as a primary hard drive? I have a 512MB flash key that when connected becomes my primary hard drive (new bios) - 0x80. If I boot a MS-DOS 7.10 floppy, one gets the command prompt and I can see the contents of my flash key as drive C:. But, if I make a image of the floppy and boot the image via memdisk, then memdisk

HI: i just trying memdisk that comes with syslinux 3.35. i try to load a dos image, which contains ghost verison 8.3 and ghost version 11. both version of ghost hangs when start-up. memdisk that comes with 3.40 pre is ok. and many earlier versions is ok too. i try some parameter like "safeint","raw". but none work. i use memdisk with pxelinux, below is part of my

Like a lot of people, I am using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make a technician universal boot disk on a USB key (I have done the same with ISOLINUX and MEMDISK for a CD using Bart's method for bootable CDs) I *LOVE* Syslinux and MEMDISK, and what I can do with floppy images! I have a few problems that have cropped up, most notably the DOCMEMORY program (www.simmstester.com) boots fing, but the

Hello all, I plan to make an (emergency) multi OS bootable CD which contain: - Win98 boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - WinME boot floppy (create from Win 98 control panel, add remove program) - Linux boot disk - Win NT boot disk - Win 2000 recovery console - Win XP recovery console - Winternal Administrative Pak (ERD Commander etc) I am new to Linux and feel

hi, peter. i wonder if you can help me with a problem i have. i am attempting to use memdisk in conjunction with grub to boot dos floppy images over a network. i realise that memdisk was designed to work with syslinux rather than grub but i really need some of the extra features of grub for my application. i has some inital problems getting grub to load memdisk which turned out to be grub

I have added instructions to memdisk.doc for how to disable MEMDISK. However, it's unlikely that this will work if you're running under DOS, since DOS will be very unhappy about drives changing underneath it. Anyway, until the next (pre)release comes out, here are the instructions: --- memdisk.doc 27 Apr 2004 06:49:36 -0000 1.10 +++ memdisk.doc 6 Jul 2004 01:29:03 -0000 @@ -122,5