Is it possible to chain isolinux and memdisk over pxelinux? If it's possible, I'd like to boot a CD Image over the network. I've been using pxelinux to boot ltsp for years, and recently upgraded to take advantage of memdisk for booting a DOS hd-image. Ideally I'd be able to boot a CD-Image. Thoughts? -- <:3)~ Michael T. Garrison Stuber
> If it's possible, I'd like to boot a CD Image over the network. I've > been using pxelinux to boot ltsp for years, and recently upgraded to > take advantage of memdisk for booting a DOS hd-image. Ideally I'd be > able to boot a CD-Image. Thoughts?a quote from Peter: "This is an FAQ. The answer is no, because ALL operating systems that boot from CD images want to talk to the hardware directly." Cheers Alex
Michael T. Garrison Stuber asked about using PXE to Boot CD Images As HPA notes, generally, it is impossible right now to PXE boot an ISO image of just any bootable CD. However, there seems to be a way to PXE boot an ISO image of WinPE or Bart's PE - helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on. Info on BartPE: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ There is a very busy CD-based forum that has a lot of excitement on a few persons' ability to PXE boot the BartPE solution described above, some using RIS, some using 3rd party PXE / TFTP servers. Reading through most of the posts, it seems to involve a lot of trial and error. It works ONLY with Windows 2003 w/ Service Pack 1. Best way to catch up on it is load the following URL, and query the search using the term "PXE": http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?act=Search&f Regards, Steve Marfisi smarfisi at emboot.com emBoot Inc.
If you have system with 256MB RAM, a 256MB compactflash card and IDE adapter, you can run WinXP from RAM. Perhaps PXElinux will also help, and save you from using harddisk or above mentioned compactflash. http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10482 is the thread. Basically it involves creating a WinPE (maybe only BartPE) LiveCD, then using a few files from Win2003SP1-RC1 to obtain the 'boot from RAMDISK' functionality. Which ISO images can actually boot? only MSDOS? If LinuxBIOS people would integrate Smart Boot Manager's Eltorito-stack, then they would also have 'boot from cdrom' functionality. Bernd ---------------------------------------------------------------- Op deze e-mail zijn de volgende voorwaarden van toepassing: http://www.fontys.nl/disclaimer The above disclaimer applies to this e-mail message. ----------------------------------------------------------------