similar to: memdisk requires floppy drive to boot

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, bit of a newbie if I'm honest but was wondering if issue mentioned here: http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2006-October/007586.html was ever fixed? basically I have the same issue with the same machine. I have 4 different types of PC's here that i'm trying to boot by USB stick. It works fine on 3 of them, but on the 4th, A HP/Compaq dx2200 MT, memdisk will not boot the .ima

hello, friends I am thinking to install centos 4.3 one laptop HP nc6230, but im worries about drivers for wireless card and others to tips. some of you install Centos in a similar machine?? Can you help me , please ? JOSE PEREZ Dominican Republic msn : jmpp_rd at hotmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I and some other people have problems with running the freedos image included in Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), when using memdisk for floppy emulation. Memdisk starts booting the image and freedos shows the following menu: 0 Boot Clean 1 Boot UMBPCI (silent) 2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal) 3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive) 4 Boot EMM386 (optimal) 5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive) 6 Boot no UMB (defensive) 7 Boot

Hi all, I have pushed out a SYSLINUX 3.32-pre4. This version attempts to work around the "missing floppy drive" issue. If you have systems on which MEMDISK doesn't work without a floppy drive, I would appreciate it if you would test this out. -hpa

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. --

For UBCD, we have a lot of config files. Isolinux will load /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg, which will load /ubcd/menus/syslinux/main.cfg Syslinux will load /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg, which will load /ubcd/menus/syslinux/main.cfg The /ubcd/menus/syslinux/main.cfg loads several other config files when you select the appropriate menu. From all those menus you can go back to

I would like to see that it is possible to specify which config file should be loaded. I would like to have an extension of the CONFIG command. Normally CONFIG loads the file that is specified after it. It should be nice if syslinux/isolinux/pxelinux/extlinux can choose which config file to load, based on the bootloader from which the current config is runned. If I will explain it with an

Problems With wireless keyboard and form Dell and a Dell domensioen 5150 computer I have obtained a DVD UBCD on it and also a Linux distributions. By booting this DVD the main menu is displayed but the wireless usb board does not react. I made A working USB stick with a working UBCD (with working usb keyboard) with instuctions given in under mentioned forum about this matter. QUESTIONS: 1.

What I'm trying to get at is this -- I'd like to analyze and understand what softwares that was used to build a library of softwares that made it as UBCD 4.x. This way, I would be able to use UBCD as a model to build customized ITS apps to be used for campus tech work. Is there some kind of step-by-step or user guide that explains how to build everything from scratch and what softwares

In message <BLU0-SMTP46982596DE9C2639CEB6B078BA40 at phx.gbl>, Ady wrote: >I am going to repeat what Genec requested at some point. Please post >the result of (replace 'sdX' with the adequate device): > > 'fdisk -l -c=dos -u=cylinders/dev/sdX' >and > 'fdisk -l -u=sectors /dev/sdX' > >where 'sdX' is (are) the problematic device. I

Hello, new to the group. We have been using PXELINUX for some time now with great success. However, with the recent spawn of virtual machines now supporting PXE boot, has anyone been able to mount the disk in this enviornment? Could someone direct me to any information on how to mount and or partition drives? I have discovered the same issue with the HP DX2200 model of PC. For example if I run

Hi I tried building Mandrake 9.2 DVD (combine files from iso images and so on). Then I tried to boot it in MS Virtual PC 2004 and it didn't work. After a while of expirementing I found out that no images work. Attached is sample cd image. (Made with Nero 6.3). I wonder is the problem in Nero, Virtual PC or in syslinux? isolinux-debug.bin gives following messages: --- ISOLINUX 2.08

> > I have successfully created bootable USB flash drives containing the > following bootable products: > > 1) Clonezilla (recent version) > 2) Ultimate Boot CD (recent version) > 3) OpenELEC (recent version) > > All of these apparently use SYSLINUX as part of the boot process. > > All three boot up just fine and with no problems at all on

> > In message <BLU0-SMTP1383C5798F6C577E5FFF368BA40 at phx.gbl>, > Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > >> With respect to all of the actually important stuff however, I may have > >> missed it all, but I don't recall having read or seen an explanation of > >> what Ady & everybody else finally figured out about all this... > >

hi there, some problem: -setup dhcp -setup tftp -setup pxelinux (?!) -dhcp: ok, client get correkt ip and so on -tftp: ok, client downloads pxelinux.0 -pxelinunx: seemed to be ok bootscreen: <snip> boot: loading memdisk... loading xyz.img Ready. the problem is, the image do not start. after the "ready" prompt nothing happens. the image file has generated from a bootable floppy

Just for the record, I want to let the list know that I succeeded in booting a modified Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk floppy from http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/ I started with a Win98 Bootfloppy from http://www.tobs.uku.co.uk. Then I made a disk image from this, using dd.exe from cygwin. Then I converted this disk image from 1.44MB to 2.88MB with winimage. Then I copied

I just wanted to chime in and mention that I'm running into the problem with getting a "Non-system disk..." error on a system using a USB floppy when the floppy is not attached when I try to boot the system over the network using memdisk to boot a floppy image. Its actually fairly important to be able to do this, as the architecture of the hardware that I'm working with utilizes

Hello, I'm investigating ways to boot a DOS floppy image stored on the FAT32 EFI System Partition using Syslinux and Memdisk. The system will be running Win8 using UEFI mode (GPT disks) and secure boot off. Change the Windows efi boot loader is the easy part... With the current syslinux's alpha version (6.0), is it possible to boot the syslinux's efi module from the FAT32 EFI

I apologize for the long delay in testing this. I can only reproduce the problem on fancy new laptops, and those do not stay in my hands for very long. As you may recall, certain floppyless laptops have a BIOS bug which prevented them from working with MEMDISK. Around a month ago, Robert Wruck contributed workaround patches, and hpa included a modified version of them in 2.07-pre1. He asked