Hi, I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result in the boot hanging at : Loading boot sector... booting... Starting... My config just says the following: default memdisk append initrd=smalldos.img I created the image following http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-August/005573.html (I am unsure if these instructions are correct) starting from a usb disk image. The usb disk works fine when used to boot the machine. -dd of the usb drive and using the resulting image does not work. - dd if=/dev/zero of=smalldos.img bs=1024 count=2880 mkdosfs smalldos.img ms-sys -f -6 smalldos.img mount -o loop smalldos.img /mnt cp /media/usbdisk/* /mnt then using smalldos.img to boot via pxeboot does not work either. Can anyone suggest the proper way to get this working ? All I want is a pxeboot image that will start ghost8. Thanks -- ********************************************* * Serge de Souza - Systems Administrator * * Curtin University of Technology * * Department of Computing * * Tel: +61 8 9266 2986 * *********************************************
You can use the ghost boot wizard to create a "pxe image" as you would create a boot floppy. Then you can use the boot image editor to make an pxe menu file. put the menu file and the pxe image on your tftp server. that worked for me although i would prefer using pxelinux...
On 1/24/06, Serge de Souza <serge at cs.curtin.edu.au> wrote:> Hi, > > I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used > with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result > in the boot hanging at :[...] You could use mkdiskimage from the syselinux package or get a 'big' ODIN FreeDOS disk (from http://tinyurl.com/e2dlp for instance) and edit it's contents. I was able to do a ~8Mb 'floppy' image (I think I had to specify the CHS to pxelinux, don't have the data at hand). hth, -- mitu
El Lunes, 23 de Enero de 2006 23:40, Serge de Souza escribi?:> Hi, > > I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used > with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result > in the boot hanging at :There are more efective ways than using ghost for backup and restoration, just compress or uncompress raw images of your cleaned disks or partitions. :S> My config just says the following: > default memdisk > append initrd=smalldos.imgdefault gs label gs kernel memdisk append initrd=smalldos.img> I created the image following > http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-August/005573.html (I am unsure > if these instructions are correct) starting from a usb disk image. The > usb disk works fine when used to boot the machine. > > -dd of the usb drive and using the resulting image does not work. > > - dd if=/dev/zero of=smalldos.img bs=1024 count=2880 > mkdosfs smalldos.img > ms-sys -f -6 smalldos.img > mount -o loop smalldos.img /mnt > > cp /media/usbdisk/* /mnt > > then using smalldos.img to boot via pxeboot does not work either. > > > Can anyone suggest the proper way to get this working ? All I want is a > pxeboot image that will start ghost8. > > Thanks-- Gustavo Guillermo P?rez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com
Michael Grundmann wrote:> You can use the ghost boot wizard to create a "pxe image" as you would > create a boot floppy. > Then you can use the boot image editor to make an pxe menu file. > put the menu file and the pxe image on your tftp server. > that worked for me although i would prefer using pxelinux... >You can chainload another PXE image from pxelinux by giving the image a .0 extension. -hpa
Gustavo Guillermo P?rez wrote:> El Lunes, 23 de Enero de 2006 23:40, Serge de Souza escribi?: > >>Hi, >> >>I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used >>with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result >>in the boot hanging at : > > There are more efective ways than using ghost for backup and restoration, just > compress or uncompress raw images of your cleaned disks or partitions. > > :SI am using ghost to create and deploy an image to 200 new workstations using multicasting. I think for this purpose it is a pretty good tool.>>My config just says the following: >>default memdisk >>append initrd=smalldos.img > > default gs > label gs > kernel memdisk > append initrd=smalldos.img > >Even with this it gives the same result. Thanks Serge