Syslinux - Nov 2003 - booting dos with pxelinux

Hello,

Not sure if and how this works... question is:

I would like to have a dual-boot scenario where
pxelinux boots a linux based thinclient per default
and the possibility to optional boot a ms-dos pxe
image. The faq says it's possible to boot dos from
pxelinux but there is no clear how-to (it least I cold
not find it). Any help is appreciated.

kind regards,
Dirk


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Hi!
> Hello,
> 
> Not sure if and how this works... question is:
> 
> I would like to have a dual-boot scenario where
> pxelinux boots a linux based thinclient per default
> and the possibility to optional boot a ms-dos pxe
> image. The faq says it's possible to boot dos from
> pxelinux but there is no clear how-to (it least I cold
> not find it). Any help is appreciated.
You might want to take a look at MEMDISK...
> 
> kind regards,
> Dirk
> 
> 
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Dirk,

the simplest way would be to use "memdisk" with 1.44 or 2.88 MB floppy
images:

LABEL dos
  KERNEL memdisk
  APPEND initrd=DOS622.img

If you need larger images, you can use bootable disk images. Check the
archive for details.

Oliver.
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> Sent: Freitag, 14. November 2003 10:49
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> Subject: [syslinux] booting dos with pxelinux
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Not sure if and how this works... question is:
> 
> I would like to have a dual-boot scenario where
> pxelinux boots a linux based thinclient per default
> and the possibility to optional boot a ms-dos pxe
> image. The faq says it's possible to boot dos from
> pxelinux but there is no clear how-to (it least I cold
> not find it). Any help is appreciated.
> 
> kind regards,
> Dirk