[Techtalk] pxelinux boot of floppy image fails

[Conor Daly]

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a boot server and use pxelinux to serve a selection
of boot images.  Among them are install kernels {fedora, ubuntu etc} which
seem to work and there are floppy disc images {memtest.bin and dban.img}
which don't work.

The floppy images work if I put them on floppies and boot from those but,
if I present them as boot images via pxelinux, they hang.

dban { http://dban.sourceforge.net/ } is a boot and nuke disc wiper.  When
I serve it with pxelinux, I see an "issued RESET" and then a screen of
garbage {like graphics on a text console}.

memtest does something similar except it tries to access a local floppy
drive and then presents a blank white screen.

There must be something I need to do with pxelinux.cfg/default to get
these to work properly.  I've had a read of:
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php and http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php
without enlightenment.

Any thoughts?

Conor


##################### pxelinux.cfg/default #########################
default memtest
prompt 1
timeout 0
display message.txt
f1 message.txt
f2 dban.txt
f3 memtest.txt
	ipappend 1
f4 harddisk.txt
label memtest
	kernel memtest.bin
label dban
	kernel dban.img
label fedora
	kernel fedora3/vmlinuz
	append initrd=fedora3/initrd.img
label harddisk
	kernel chain
	append hd0 1
label retry
	localboot 0
###################################################################

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