Hi! I'm trying to boot this kind of file: $ file ibm_fw_bios_m9e144a_anyos_i386.img ibm_[...]_i386.img: DOS floppy 1440k, x86 hard disk boot sector (This is a BIOS update boot image for the IBM X Series servers). I'm booting with PXE on the IBM machine, with this pxelinux.cfg: $ cat pxelinux.cfg/default [...] LABEL update_bios_img MENU LABEL ^BIOS Update (img) FDIMAGE ibm_fw_bios_m9e144a_anyos_i386.img [...] PXE boots, I select this image, and I get the following error upon botting this .img file: boot: update_bios_img Invalid image type for this media type! boot: Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks! Daniel -- L?VAI D?niel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1
Good day L?VAI D?niel, You asked about using a 1.44 MB floppy disk image using the FDIMAGE keyword in your PXELINUX config-file. In syslinux/doc/comboot.txt, we see a hint that FDIMAGE is only relevant for ISOLINUX. Please use MEMDISK, as follows: $ cat pxelinux.cfg/default [...] LABEL update_bios_img MENU LABEL ^BIOS Update (img) KERNEL memdisk INITRD ibm_fw_bios_m9e144a_anyos_i386.img [...] You will need for the "memdisk" file (from syslinux/memdisk/memdisk) to be available in your TFTP service directory. Good luck! - Shao Miller
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19.55.14 Miller, Shao wrote: [...]> Please use MEMDISK, as follows: > > $ cat pxelinux.cfg/default > [...] > LABEL update_bios_img > MENU LABEL ^BIOS Update (img) > KERNEL memdisk > INITRD ibm_fw_bios_m9e144a_anyos_i386.img[...] It works great, thank you very much! Daniel -- L?VAI D?niel PGP key ID = 0x4AC0A4B1 Key fingerprint = D037 03B9 C12D D338 4412 2D83 1373 917A 4AC0 A4B1