similar to: How to create a hard disk image to load with pxelinux

Hi, "David Ehrmann" <exobyte at bigvalley.net> schrieb am 10.07.03 11:02:54: > I've been doing that for a while, but I seem to be finding conflicting > information. Some sources focus on the boot ROM aspect of etherboot > while others think etherboot is an alternative to PXE. Correct me if I'm > wrong, but it seems like there is etherboot the program and

Hi, I created a 4 Meg Byte primanry DOS patition onto a hard disk. This partition was formatted with format /s. The hard drive was able to boot DOS. After that I connected the drive to a Linux machine and created and image with the command dd if=/dev/had1 of=hard.img When I send this image to my PXE client I see on the screen: MEMLINUX: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder MEMLINUX:

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Quinn wrote: > I have now also tried etherboot on a AMD Athlon machine with a 3Com 905B > NIC, etherboot 5.3.14 and pxelinux.0-3.08-pre5. Here is the results: > > Etherboot 5.3.14 (GPL) http://etherboot.org > Drivers: 3C90X Images: NBI ELF PXE Exports: PXE > Protocols: DHCP TFTP > Relocating _text from: [00010420,00022880) to [5feedba0,5ff00000) >

Tim Legge has passed the following message on to me: hpa wrote: > Quinn wrote: > > Now it seems I have found a bug in PXELINUX with regards to etherboot. > > Up until 2.07 pxelinux was responsive to the keyboard. From 2.08 and > > up the keyboard is locked at the boot prompt when pxelinux is loaded > > via etherboot 5.3.14. > > That would not be a PXELINUX bug,

Hi, [I sent this mail again because my previous mail was rejected by ML for some reason] This topic is originally from etherboot ML. When we specify "localboot" for pxelinux loaded from etherboot, this option doesn't work( it doesn't boot from local harddrive ). pxelinux returns to PXE with localboot return code but etherboot doesn't check it. I was trying to change

Hello PXE folk, I mentioned in another thread that I had problems finding an etherboot that actually works with a 486 and Realtek 8019/NE2000 card. Etherboot worked up until v 5.3.5-mc1 with the ne driver but then stopped working between 5.3.7 to 5.3.13 (anoying since 5.3.7 started supporting PXELINUX. But then I downloaded 5.3.14 and it seems to work again with the ne driver (finally

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I'm trying to share a partition on a Intergraph 6480 running CLIX. The OS is CLIX version 3.1 (ISS) r.7.6.20. The server is at a University Lab and all the clients are either Windows NT or Windows 95. I tried NFS, but Windows doesn't support it natively and is much slower/unreliable than SAMBA. Does SAMBA support this

Hi, (this is a topic from etherboot ML). When we specify "localboot" for pxelinux loaded from etherboot, this option doesn't work( it doesn't boot from local harddrive ). I was trying to change etherboot side but it was not easy to me. So I simply replaced pxelinux local_boot: with isolinux's one with little modification. It may be better that pxelinux.cfg also allows to

Hello, First, I'd like to say that this is an extremely useful piece of software - thank-you very much! I am working with couple of schools in my area, and using pxelinux and syslinux for various things. I find the functionality of pxelinux's localboot option to be extremely useful - I force pxe boot, and then use pxelinux to let the user choose local boot or remote boot. This is

Hi, hm at seneca.muc.de schrieb am 29.05.03 21:40:34: > I would like to load pxelinux as a second stage bootloader from a machine > which does not have a PXE BIOS (namely, from a VMware guest machine) in > order to perform an automated Linux installation. A boot floppy would > be nice. It seems that there are some commercial solutions around but > is there someting in the OSS

Hi, Anyone has tried to use pxechain with Etherboot? Here is my problem: The Etherboot client had no problem to get the list of install servers manual from the pxechain. But didn't matter which server was chosen, Etherboot client always tried to use the first server to do the installation. Etherboot 5.4 was used. What the problem may be? PXEchain or Etherboot? Thanks, Joyce --

Question for people... Has anyone actually tried running PXELINUX on top of Etherboot? There is something in Etherboot 5.1.7 called FREEBSD_PXEEMU, which seems to be a PXE stack subset, in particular it seems to support the following calls: PXENV_GET_CACHED_INFO PXENV_UDP_OPEN PXENV_UDP_WRITE PXENV_UDP_READ PXENV_UDP_CLOSE PXENV_UNLOAD_STACK PXENV_UNDI_SHUTDOWN This happens to be pretty

Hello! I have been successful using SYSLINUX and Etherboot to create a generic "PXE-on-a-disk" package, a floppy image and CD image that support as many Ethernet cards as possible. These have support for all of Etherboot's modules that support real PCI cards: about 25-or-so drivers and 250-or-so cards. I've built Etherboot ZLILO images, one for each driver, set up to boot

Hi, Peter Lister <P.Lister at sychron.com> schrieb am 06.02.02: > In way way better and easier? When I have criticised pxelinux I think > I've always stated *why* etherboot seems better for our environment. > > I'm not trying to be religious, or get anyone to change a working system > - I'm genuinely interested what differences others perceive. I've looked

Hello Everyone, In short, I have the following questions: Is there a known problem with PXE booting and LinuxBIOS? Will pxelinux.0 not work with a serial console? Is there a way to convert pxelinux.0 into an ELF file? The Long Version: I am working on installing Rocks Cluter distribution on a LinuxNetworx cluster. The hardware was donated to my college, and the CS

I'm not sure if this belongs here or on an etherboot list. I've given up on trying to get a single floppy syslinux with enough stuff to remote mount a file system. I'm trying an etherboot floppy. When I boot the system finds the dhcp server and gets the right file name but then it gives me the message "not a valid image." A quick search of the net didn't help much.

We have a lot of diskless Linux clients which are booting via PXELINUX or ETHERBOOT. The problem is that they are on for 24 hours and APM PowerSave mode works for ETHERBOOT only. But in the future we want to use PXELINUX only, which seems to have no features for APM or ACPI PowerSave included. Would it be possible to integrate such features in PXELINUX or is there a way to boot a special image

I am trying to come up with a 'clever' way to pxe-boot boxes that don't have any way to pxe boot. as in, old laptops that only have pc-mica nics. "Etherboot does not (yet) offer support for PCMCIA cards." http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/pcmcia_support I am not trying to do 'that' - just trying to come up with a process to work around it. Something like this:

Good day, Pasi. Perhaps you'd be interested in joining the Syslinux mailing-list, if you haven't done so already. Is part of the problem description that the 'LOCALBOOT 0' directive does not behave as expected? If I'm not mistaken, I believe that 'LOCALBOOT 0' will return control to the computer's PXE boot ROM code. The PXE boot ROM code is then supposed to

Hi, As requested on IRC, here are the step-by-step instructions to reproduce the failure I see: On http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php: output format: .dsk NIC type: e1000_82540 x CONSOLE_PCBIOS x CONSOLE_SERIAL BANNER_TIMEOUT: 20 COMCONSOLE: 0x3F8 _ COMPRESERVE COMSPEED: 57600 COMDATA: 8 COMPARITY: 0 COMSTOP: 1 x DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP x DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTP _