similar to: special boot disk.

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.

I'm trying to create a single floppy based boot disk that will, depending on what the user enters, boot redHat, SUSE or Debian. Does anyone have any sample syslinux.cfg files that might allow me to boot via nfs? Also, I'm having trouble fitting init into initrd.img any ideas? Thanks -- Steve Glines voice: 978-952-6340 www.is-cs.com fax: 978-952-8524 145 Foster

Okay, spending the time to dot t's and cross i's (or something like that), I think I have something now that can be called 3.00-worthy, so let's call it a release candidate. Changes over the earlier 3.00 prereleases: - -m and -a options now supported by the DOS installer. - PXELINUX now allows IP addresses, FQDNs, and truncated hostnames when specifying an alternate TFTP server

Hello, Can I load setupldr.bin directly using isolinux without original CD boot sector? Thanks, Theewara

I am trying to create a single floppy boot using syslinux and dbootstrap in the initrd partition to load Debian Linux. I'm able to get it to do a secondary boot from the PXE system but booted system sometimes doesn't see the ethernet card. When it does I'd like to hardwire the URL of out mirror instead of us.debian.org. Does anyone know a source of any documentation on dbootstrap

perhaps the boot-from-cdrom code in Smart Boot Manager? Bernd >>> No, since booting from CD-ROM requires that the El Torito part of the BIOS is activated, which it won't be if it didn't boot from CD-ROM in the first place. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing:

I have a Lilo.conf file, which I have tried for many hours to convert to Syslinux. I looked around on the web for references on translating some of the components. I want to convert it to Syslinux/Isolinux. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. When I tried to convert it I made sure that the kernel and initrd had proper DOS names and such. -Michael =:LILO.CONF:= prompt timeout=10

I'd like to take advantage of the small, compressed Linux systems such as Knoppix or BeatrIX, but I can't have a CD rom on my system. (A project's marketing requirement.). So I figure I could use something like SYSLINUX or ISOLINUX to do it for me, but there is some magic in the process (the sequence of booting) that eludes me. 1/ mbr (from SYSLINUX) installed on hard drive... and

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,

HPA, a longterm reminder. See below. Can you also make a LABEL ignore other labels if no KERNEL statement is found in between? That way you could define multiple aliasses for an entry. label foo label bar label memtest kernel memtestp foo ignores 'label bar' , 'label memtest' and executes 'kernel memtest' bar ignores 'label memtest' and executes 'kernel

Does SYSLINUX have any idea which DOS driveletter would be assigned to the disk it is booting from? At www.veder.com someone is trying to build a USB flash drive. However, FreeDOS does not seem to boot correctly from it (bootsector trouble maybe, or kernel itself is confusing drives), thus we're thinking of using Syslinux + Memdisk + bootimage, but somehow we want to be able to also access the

I have just released SYSLINUX 3.00-pre9. The only change versus 3.00-pre8 is that the MEMDISK query API now reports the boot loader ID byte, per Bernd's suggestion. This is a release candidate, and I plan to release it as 3.00 *tomorrow*, unless I hear back anything bad. -hpa

Hi! H. Peter Anvin, Could memdisk be made readonly? Thanks a lot! Anticipating your reply. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com

Hi, I am trying to boot a liveCD thats on my hard disc ...is there a way of doing this using lilo ? reason well rather than keep burning to CD then testing I want to be able to make changes then test by booting to liveCD.... Thanks in advance Dave T..

hi there, hope this is not too much out of topic here... i give it a try anyway :-) when i try to build the iso with: mkisofs i get the following error: [...] Using TTYX2000.;1 for ./dev/ttyX2 (ttyx2) Using TTYS0000.;1 for ./dev/ttys0 (ttyS0) Using TTYY3000.;1 for ./dev/ttyY3 (ttyy3) Using FD0H360000.;1 for ./dev/fd0H360 (fd0h360) Using TTYX1000.;1 for ./dev/ttyx1 (ttyX1) Size of boot

Hello! I'm trying to boot with a remastered Knoppix 3.4 CD. I burned it with debugging and I get the following output: isolinux: Starting up, DL = 9F isolinux: Loaded spec packet OK, drive = 9F isolinux: Loading main image from LBA = DEADBEF0 isolinux: Sectors to load = D5B7 isolinux: Disk error BE, AX = 42F0, drive 9F A don't understand everything in it and I can't find enough

Hi All, I was testing syslinux floppy on a Mazza MotherBoard, his chipset is VIA MVP3 (VT82C598MVP, VT82C586B), and Winbond W83877F/TF. After reading the floppy, I see 'boot failed', I have to ide disk in the system, only flash device. I used the -s option to build the floppy. Does Somebody know if the chipset is supported? I tested the floppy on toshiba laptop and it works very fine.

Hi, I am trying for quite some time to create a bootable hd disk image with mkdiskimage (included in the syslinux distribution) and the combination isolinux/memdisk. It just won't work:-} I have done the following: [snip] # ./mkdiskimage -d -o disk 256 32 1 640 # losetup -o 640 /dev/loop3 disk # mount /dev/loop3 /mnt/3 # mount | grep loop3 /dev/loop3 on /mnt/3 type vfat (rw) :: copy

Hi all, I'm trying to work out how to boot DOS on a diskless PC, and I've come to a bit of a stumbling block with loading IPX support (which is extremely important, since most DOS games use IPX for network play ;-)) So far thanks to PXELinux and Memdisk I've gotten a DOS floppy image booting successfully, but I'm stuck trying to get IPX support. Admittedly I don't have much

Hi, I am new to Linux. Had installed a RedHat Linux 7.3 from the CD. I need to set up the parallel port for communication to another DOS PC. Saw a HowTo guide on PLIP and it mentioned .../proc/parport/.... But there is no such path. Had tried the insmod and still can't get it work. Did I miss some step when I first install the Linux OS? Should I install something like kernel or core rpm