First off, Thank you for pxelinux. It works as expected and for my needs it is a most useful project. I apologize in advance for posting this question as it is in part off topic, but I have searched extensively with little results. Are there any alternatives to memdisk for use with pxelinux for booting troublesome floppy images with such applications that fail to use INT 15h, AX=E820h. Having spent some time experimenting with diskemu's diskem1x.bin and cdshell's implementation of diskemu as a module for use with bootable cdroms, I have seen memdisk and diskemu work from a common loader as alternative kernels for booting floppy images (for use with bootable cd-rom). Is anybody aware of a diskemu kernel or alternative kernel to memdisk that might provide another method for booting floppy images with such "non-conformant" applications as DocMemory for use with pxelinux? In a nutshell, I am looking for: #pxelinux.cfg file label docmem # kernel memdisk kernel diskemu # (or some alternative) append initrd=docmem.img Greetings, CharlesW
Benjamin Pineau
2004-May-20 11:08 UTC
[syslinux] alternatives to memdisk for use with pxelinux?
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:43:54AM -0400, 2boxers wrote:> > Is anybody aware of a diskemu kernel or alternative kernel to memdisk that > might provide another method for booting floppy images with such > "non-conformant" applications as DocMemory for use with pxelinux?I'm also activly looking for this kind of things in order to boot OpenBSD and NetBSD images (that can't be booted from memdisk). If you find something, please, contact me. -- ben