Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz
2007-Jul-19 21:43 UTC
[syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs
Hello, I am a *nix newbie I am trying to boot a DOS boot disk using PXE (to Ghost on windows images). We have an existing PXE server which successfully serves out PXElinux and Fedora builds based on that but my floppy disk image with memdisk isn't working I have tried a few different floppy images which people have posted as ones that work for them but I doubt the disk is the problem as the hang occurs before memdisk itself seems to have even loaded: Loading memdisk..... Loading image.img ............. Loading Ready and then nothing more.... I only found one other post with the same symptoms. http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2002-April/000346.html The guy who set up the server says that the versions of isolinux etc are the latest. This is from my config file (I tried all these variations but the same result): label 20 kernel memdisk keeppxe append initrd=test.ima floppy label test kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/bart.img keeppxe label a kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/net.img floppy label b kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy label c kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/net.img raw label d kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima raw label e kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy raw Any ideas much appreciated! This email may contain privileged/confidential information. You may not copy or disclose this email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error please kindly delete this message and notify the sender. Opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily the opinions of the employer. This email and any attached files should be scanned to detect viruses. No liability will be accepted by the employer for loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) as a result of email transmission.
Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz wrote:> > The guy who set up the server says that the versions of isolinux etc are > the latest. >Ask him which specific version it is. -hpa
Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz
2007-Jul-20 03:18 UTC
[syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs
Syslinux-3.51 compiled on RHE4 platform running kernal 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 and all current patches. Eileen McNaughton Alcatel-Lucent Test Engineer eileen.mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz 027 274 9407 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> Sent by: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 20/07/2007 10:16 a.m. Please respond to For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> To For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> cc Subject Re: [syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs Eileen.Mcnaughton at alcatel-lucent.co.nz wrote:> > The guy who set up the server says that the versions of isolinux etc are> the latest. >Ask him which specific version it is. -hpa _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. This email may contain privileged/confidential information. You may not copy or disclose this email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error please kindly delete this message and notify the sender. Opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily the opinions of the employer. This email and any attached files should be scanned to detect viruses. No liability will be accepted by the employer for loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) as a result of email transmission.
Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com
2007-Jul-20 06:30 UTC
[syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux hangs
Hello Eileen, because of the *. ima extension I suppose you use using WinImage you create your DOS Bootdisk. If you want to use ghost for imaging I suppose you don't use a 1.4 MB Floppyimage. How do you you create your boot image and what's the size. To narrow your problem: * Try first to use a standard 1,4 MB floppy that also boots from floppy drive. * Don't use the DOS-Version of Windows ME (Freedos, MS Dos 5.0 till Win 98 SE would bee ok) because this version will not boot via pxe. * If you use himem in your config.sys, use the /testmem:off switch (otherwise this can overwrite pxe/memdisk). * Make sure (if possible at least for testing purpose) that a floppy drive is attached to and activated in bios of the pxe-client (because of buggy pxe implemetations). * If you want to create a 2,8MB floppy image with winimage, read first a bootable normal 1,4 MB floppy, change format in WinImage to 2,8MB and add then extra Files to image. * If you aren't experienced this WinImage and pxelinux/memdisk don't use master boot images greater 2,8 MB * If you create boot floppies greater then 2,8MB with Winimage your config file memdisk needs the floppy and c,h,s parameters (normaly something like c=225 s=36 h=4,8 or 16). * Images greater 2,8MB must be uncompressed (ima) images, the smaller ones can use compressed (imz) format. If you need a greater bootimage please email me personaly and I can send you a master image and the corresponding template for your config file (just copy your files into this). Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Yours sincerely Peter Leenders Eileen.Mcnaughton @alcatel-lucent.c o.nz To Sent by: syslinux at zytor.com syslinux-bounces@ cc zytor.com Subject [syslinux] Help Memdisk + Pxelinux 19.07.2007 23:43 hangs Please respond to For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.c om> Hello, I am a *nix newbie I am trying to boot a DOS boot disk using PXE (to Ghost on windows images). We have an existing PXE server which successfully serves out PXElinux and Fedora builds based on that but my floppy disk image with memdisk isn't working I have tried a few different floppy images which people have posted as ones that work for them but I doubt the disk is the problem as the hang occurs before memdisk itself seems to have even loaded: Loading memdisk..... Loading image.img ............. Loading Ready and then nothing more.... I only found one other post with the same symptoms. http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2002-April/000346.html The guy who set up the server says that the versions of isolinux etc are the latest. This is from my config file (I tried all these variations but the same result): label 20 kernel memdisk keeppxe append initrd=test.ima floppy label test kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/bart.img keeppxe label a kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/net.img floppy label b kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy label c kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/net.img raw label d kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima raw label e kernel memdisk append initrd=dos/netlg.ima floppy raw Any ideas much appreciated! This email may contain privileged/confidential information. You may not copy or disclose this email to anyone without the written permission of the sender. If you have received this email in error please kindly delete this message and notify the sender. Opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily the opinions of the employer. This email and any attached files should be scanned to detect viruses. No liability will be accepted by the employer for loss or damage (whether caused by negligence or not) as a result of email transmission. _______________________________________________ SYSLINUX mailing list Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com Unsubscribe or set options at: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.