Syslinux - Dec 2004 - pxelinux+memdisk

Hi,

I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos tcp/ip
connect to windows network.

I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable floppy. But
when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead show a
multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't work.

Pls help

Jitender

Hi,
if you search archives, you can find that for PXE boot it's easiest to first
confirm PXE booting is working:
try memtest+ (www.memtest.org) as what you want to execute over network.

rename memtestp.bin to memtestp,
create directory pxelinux.cfg on your server,
create textfile called 'default' and place it in that directory.

contents something like this:

prompt 0
default 0
ontimeout 0
timeout 150

label 0
    kernel memtestp
label 1
    kernel memdisk
      append initrd=win98.img

memdisk, memtestp and win98.img need to be in the root of your tftpboot
directory on the server.

and that's all the help I can offer as an end-user of Windows
(no expert, and hardly any Linux experience)

Bernd


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Jitender Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos tcp/ip
> connect to windows network.
> 
> I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable floppy.
But
> when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead show a
> multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't
work.
> 
Note that the DOS from WinME/WinXP doesn't work under MEMDISK for 
reasons still unknown (it does some extremely odd things, so it's hard 
to figure out what's abnormal.)

	-HPA

>> Jitender Gupta wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos
tcp/ip
>> connect to windows network.
>>
>> I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable
floppy. But
>> when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead
show a
>> multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't
work.
> Note that the DOS from WinME/WinXP doesn't work under MEMDISK for
> reasons still unknown (it does some extremely odd things, so it's hard
> to figure out what's abnormal.)
>
> 	-HPA
I use the Win98 version of dos that comes on bart's modboot boot disks
from www.nu2.nu and it works fine with no problems. Okay, I lie, it has
some issues with old school games, but I think that's the packet driver,
rather than a PXELINUX issue.