similar to: Booting to a DOS boot disk using pxelinux?

I would like to be able to create a 2.88MB bootable floppy image to hold the kernel and initrd -- will be used for automated install. In various newsgroups there have been many posting attempting to describe how to achieve this, but none of them is complete. Can syslinux be used to achieve this? What about memdisk? Thank you in advance. Fet

I had to create a single floppy image holding the kernel and initrd of SuSe8.0 distibution. When I boot the computer, it first loads the kernel, and starts loading the initrd. After a short while it halts saying ?Boot Failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.? The floppy image is served by a PXE server, so I am not sure if the problem I am facing has anything to do with ?bad

Hiya, Just joined the list and started using pxelinux. Very cool product!!! I searched the, 8+ MB, archives looking for multicast entries. I know that the pxelinux page says that the support of mtftp in pxelinux isn't in the works but I'm not sure how old/relavant that comment is. I have noticied some comments from H.P.A. describing the difficulties in doing MTFTP. Are there any plans to

Hi- On the pxelinux web page here: http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php Mr. Anvin says the following: " PXELINUX does not support MTFTP, and I have no immediate plans of doing so. It is of course possible to use MTFTP for the initial boot, if you have such a setup. MTFTP server setup is beyond the scope of this document. " I am curious as to the possibility of 'mtftp for the

Ady: You seem to be taking (copy$paste) parts and pieces from different resources. Luke: Nope. The configuration works fine with PXE 2.01 clients, it's the UEFI PXE 3.2 that is having issues with the dhcp requests. The gospel is the Intel PXE 3 spec I'm RTFMing now. No copy and paste, I just started with someone elses configuration file that claims to support UEFI - or at least hopes to

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Luke Ledgerd <luke.ledgerd at niteco.se> wrote: > Gene, > > As it happened I started working on this again just as you mailed me. I saw it in IRC. > It appears that PXE-E99 may also be related to MTFTP part of the PXE spec. IBM also says it has something to do with jumbo frames. I tried setting PXE.mtcp-ip to 0.0.0.0 to disable it but still no

Hello list, My set up is almost complete in booting DOS through PXELinux, but I need to create a DOS boot image from (2 )DOS floppies. I've search the archives and google but didn't find any relavant info... My current set up now works with the standard setup (with one DOS floppy): kernel: memdisk append: initrd=floppy.img ramdisk=10000 My goal to is create a floppy.img from 2 DOS

I have already a running automated Deployment system using pxelinux and tftd and a 1,44 floppy image (memdisk) with ms-dos and 3-com undi drivers. The whole thing is working good, and i am not unhappy about it. But, the dos image solution has a few disadvanatages, because i cannot find a mtftp client for ms-dos to deploy a lot of system at the same time. Under linux such client exists, but i

Gene, As it happened I started working on this again just as you mailed me. It appears that PXE-E99 may also be related to MTFTP part of the PXE spec. IBM also says it has something to do with jumbo frames. I tried setting PXE.mtcp-ip to 0.0.0.0 to disable it but still no joy. The bootfile size shows up as zero because that relates to "option boot-size" in dhcp and doesn't seem to

Hi there, ----- Original Message ----- From: koxudaxi at gmail.com To: syslinux at zytor.com Date: 01.04.2013 10:00:27 Subject: Re: [syslinux] Problem with pxelinux 5.0 and memtest > On 04/01/2013 09:28 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 03/31/2013 05:26 PM, Koudai Aono wrote: >>> I ran the test on a x86 emulator is called Oracle VirtualBox. >>> I think it might not be

I found that if I do not have a local floppy installed and enabled on my client, I will get the error 'Non-system disk' when I try to boot DOS floppy images. NT or Syslinux floppy images boot fine. If I enable the floppy in the BIOS, then it boots the DOS floppies just fine. Is this normal? Is there a workaround? There are MS-DOS images, so perhaps this is an MS-DOS limitation. --

Hi: First - pxelinux works great - got it up and running with few problems. However - I ran into a snag, I am assuming I have a configuration issue. Here are the details. Using: syslinux-1.75 dhcp-3.0pl1 tftp-hpa-0.29 A lot of what I have done is from: http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/diskless dhcpd.conf: # DHCP configuration file for DHCP ISC 3.0 ddns-update-style

Hello. In my case I can successfully boot up my Thinkpad X32, but the same configuration doesn't work for my desktop computer with Intel network card, with Intel Boot Agent 2.2 DHCP server is 10.0.0.1, tftpd (used tftp-hpa) runs on 10.0.0.32. netstat told me the daemon listen to 69 UDP port just fine. running tftp in commandline also shows it works (retrieve pxelinux.0 less then 1 second).

On Dec 25, 2014 2:11 AM, "Luke Ledgerd" <luke.ledgerd at niteco.se> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > We are going with WDS to fire up first to get the benefits of targeted M$ deployments. If you have the "handle unknown computers" off on your M$ Distribution point, then you can still use regular WDS which runs next as a PXE filter (DLL linked into WDS) to fire off

Hello, i've found a strange bug, here is my situation: - all of our computers makes a pxeboot request by default dhcp server is configured: option option-128 code 128 = string; option option-129 code 129 = text; option space PXE; option PXE.mtftp-ip code 1 = ip-address; option PXE.mtftp-cport code 2 = unsigned integer 16; option PXE.mtftp-sport code 3 = unsigned

Sorry for top-posting but my webmail forces me to. I added -W to the APPEND line as suggested but I'm still getting the same result: Booting... Altiris, inc. X86PC PreBoot, PXE-2.x Enhanced Build ID=402 PXEPreZero: Invalid PXE Server list format. and the client PC freezes right there. Here's the full content of my dhcp.conf: max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style interim;

Hi, I have refered to ur documents for creating a Diskless node in linux ,but could not get through the installation . The exact problem that i am facing is mention below , also, there r few queries, which i would be greatfull if u can answer First let me explain u what i have done . I am trying the configuration with one server machine and one client. server configuration 256mb ram AMD Athlon

Hey guys, We are going with WDS to fire up first to get the benefits of targeted M$ deployments. If you have the "handle unknown computers" off on your M$ Distribution point, then you can still use regular WDS which runs next as a PXE filter (DLL linked into WDS) to fire off anything you want to including PXELinux. The stuff I was talking about before with PXELinux not working in

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 13:18 -0500, Gene Cumm wrote: > Second, I notice the Altiris server specifies _3_ options of code 43, > including one of length 253. The pack/unpack _should_ handle this but > may split it differently. That's legal, and treated as if the values had been concatenated. See RFC2131, section 4.1, and particularly the second paragraph on page 24. Unfortunately, a

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