Syslinux - Feb 2003 - Memdisk and USB Floppy

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 a single USB floppy that is shared across
multiple machines and there is no way to add a normal floppy.  So to use
memdisk right now, I have to boot the floppy image over the network
serially, rather than in parallel.

I had been using bpbatch without this problem on these systems, but I'm
trying to move off of it (it won't boot the installation kernel from the
SuSE 8.1 CDs).  Of course, I know bpbatch is not open-source, so
figuring out how it does things is probably difficult at best.


Thanks,

--Andy

Andy Wray wrote:
> 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 a single USB floppy that is shared
across
> multiple machines and there is no way to add a normal floppy.  So to use
> memdisk right now, I have to boot the floppy image over the network
> serially, rather than in parallel.
> 
> I had been using bpbatch without this problem on these systems, but I'm
> trying to move off of it (it won't boot the installation kernel from
the
> SuSE 8.1 CDs).  Of course, I know bpbatch is not open-source, so
> figuring out how it does things is probably difficult at best.
> 
This is pretty much impossible to diagnose without access to the hardware.

	-hpa