Hello list, I use syslinux-2.04 and did the following: # creating a 16MB image with structure C/H/S 2/256/63 mkdiskimage disk.img 2 256 63 # creating dos filesystem mkdosfs disk.img # mounting image mount -o loop disk.img /mnt/img # copying files from PC-DOS 7.1 mcopy a: /mnt/img dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootblock.dos7 bs=512 count=1 cp bootblock.dos7 /mnt/img/dos.bss cat << EOF > /mnt/img/syslinux.cfg SAY welcome! PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 600 DEFAULT 1 LABEL 1 KERNEL dos.bss EOF # ls -al /mnt/img -rwxr-xr-x autoexec.bat -rwxr-xr-x command.com -rwxr-xr-x config.sys -rwxr-xr-x ibmbio.com -rwxr-xr-x ibmdos.com -rwxr-xr-x ldlinux.sys -rwxr-xr-x syslinux.cfg # making bootable umount /mnt/img syslinux disk.img # so far, so good. # but when booting via PXE (pxelinux.cfg/default) ... LABEL t KERNEL memdisk c=2 h=256 s=63 APPEND initrd=disk.img # the following things occur boot: t Loading memdisk Loading disk.img ...................................(16MB)......... Ready. MEMDISK 2.04 .... ... command line: initrd=disk.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder <<<< [A] Disk is hard disk, 16128K CHS=2/242/50 <<<< [A] ... Loading boot sector... booting... SYSLINUX 2.04 welcome! boot: 1
Change> LABEL t > KERNEL memdisk c=2 h=256 s=63 > APPEND initrd=disk.imgto:> LABEL t > KERNEL memdisk > APPEND initrd=disk.img c=2 h=256 s=63Regards, Remko van der Vossen
Thomas Baumann wrote:> Hello list, I use syslinux-2.04 and did the following: >Hi there, Could you try "export LC_ALL=C" and then try this again? Thanks, -hpa
Sorry, due to a problem with our email server I did not receive any response. Maybe the message did not go out. I hope sb. can help me. Hello list, I use syslinux-2.04 and did the following: # creating a 16MB image with structure C/H/S 2/256/63 mkdiskimage disk.img 2 256 63 # creating dos filesystem mkdosfs disk.img # mounting image mount -o loop disk.img /mnt/img # copying files from PC-DOS 7.1 mcopy a: /mnt/img dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootblock.dos7 bs=512 count=1 cp bootblock.dos7 /mnt/img/dos.bss cat << EOF > /mnt/img/syslinux.cfg SAY welcome! PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 600 DEFAULT 1 LABEL 1 KERNEL dos.bss EOF # ls -al /mnt/img -rwxr-xr-x autoexec.bat -rwxr-xr-x command.com -rwxr-xr-x config.sys -rwxr-xr-x ibmbio.com -rwxr-xr-x ibmdos.com -rwxr-xr-x ldlinux.sys -rwxr-xr-x syslinux.cfg # making bootable umount /mnt/img syslinux disk.img # so far, so good. # but when booting via PXE (pxelinux.cfg/default) ... LABEL t KERNEL memdisk c=2 h=256 s=63 APPEND initrd=disk.img # the following things occur boot: t Loading memdisk Loading disk.img ...................................(16MB)......... Ready. MEMDISK 2.04 .... ... command line: initrd=disk.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end cylinder <<<< [A] Disk is hard disk, 16128K CHS=2/242/50 <<<< [A] ... Loading boot sector... booting... SYSLINUX 2.04 welcome! boot: 1