Syslinux - May 2005 - Memdisk problem when no hard drives are in system

Hi,
  I am having a problem where an 8MB DOS PXE image that I use with memdisk
to update the firmware of my systems does not boot when there are no (or
failed) hard drives in the system.  This process normally works fine but I
get this error message "=Nf000f859 Failure, assuming this is the only
drive" followed by "Non-System disk or disk-error" when the hard
drives are
missing or have failed.

Any ideas on what is going on?

Mike

Hello Mike,

Try booting the image alone first via QEMU or VMWARE before booting on a 
real machine.  You
could also try with different DOS versions - FreeDOS, DR DOS, MS DOS, PC 
DOS, etc.

Quinn

Mike Nolterieke wrote:
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>Hi,
>  I am having a problem where an 8MB DOS PXE image that I use with memdisk
>to update the firmware of my systems does not boot when there are no (or
>failed) hard drives in the system.  This process normally works fine but I
>get this error message "=Nf000f859 Failure, assuming this is the only
>drive" followed by "Non-System disk or disk-error" when the
hard drives are
>missing or have failed.
>
>Any ideas on what is going on?
>
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