Hello there. I use (and love!) your syslinux software - also pxelinux and soon isolinux. I have been using it for build deployment purposes for some time now, however I recently updated my kernel and added some additional drivers to it, making it too large to fit on a floppy along with my ramdisk. This is no problem for my PXE-enabled clients, of course, but for those machines that do not support PXE, I can no longer use syslinux because it apparently does not support the "prompt_ramdisk" option so that I can swap in my second floppy disk. Do you have any plans to include this functionality in a later release? Many thanks. Mike Jones
> I use (and love!) your syslinux software - also pxelinux and soon isolinux. > I have been using it for build deployment purposes for some time now, > however I recently updated my kernel and added some additional drivers to > it, making it too large to fit on a floppy along with my ramdisk. This is > no problem for my PXE-enabled clients, of course, but for those machines > that do not support PXE, I can no longer use syslinux because it apparently > does not support the "prompt_ramdisk" option so that I can swap in my > second floppy disk.I had this problem too, but got round it by using etherboot roms on non-pxe clients (or an etherboot disk). Using ISC's dhcpd 3.x you can put in conditionals which offer a PXE (pxelinux) image or a tagged image (made using mknbi-linux) for etherboot. That way you also avoid any disk swapping. It took some fiddling, but works like a charm.> Do you have any plans to include this functionality in a later release? > > Many thanks. > > Mike JonesRamen
Mike Jones wrote:> Hello there. > > I use (and love!) your syslinux software - also pxelinux and soon isolinux. > I have been using it for build deployment purposes for some time now, > however I recently updated my kernel and added some additional drivers to > it, making it too large to fit on a floppy along with my ramdisk. This is > no problem for my PXE-enabled clients, of course, but for those machines > that do not support PXE, I can no longer use syslinux because it apparently > does not support the "prompt_ramdisk" option so that I can swap in my second > floppy disk. > > Do you have any plans to include this functionality in a later release? >prompt_ramdisk is a kernel option, not a SYSLINUX option. The kernel should support it if suitable configured. I have been considering implementing some kind of multi-floppy support in syslinux, but realistically, it probably won't happen unless someone ends up paying me to get it done (I have too many projects on my hands right now, which are more interesting and therefore higher priority to me.) This is yet another reason why I'd like to see a PXE-on-a-floppy implementation. Someone said there is actually a way to coax one out of W2K, but that obviously isn't acceptable for most users. -hpa
> -----Original Message----- > From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] > Sent: August 22, 2002 2:39 PM > To: Mike Jones > Cc: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Syslinux with two-disk set (boot+root ) >SNIP> This is yet another reason why I'd like to see a PXE-on-a-floppy > implementation. Someone said there is actually a way to coax > one out of W2K, but that obviously isn't acceptable for most users. > > -hpauSoft calls it RIS, the program is called "rbfg.exe". There is a selection of PCI network adapter supported. I've used it to boot a non-PXE enabled network connected system.