darn buggy bios

D R Holsbeck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pxes.devel
Message-ID <1081531420.3708.27.camel@drhdeb>
Ok I have a few new boxes with bad bios's. They wont boot an ISOLinux cd
:-(

So I was trying to create an El-Torito cd to boot from. I run into a
problem with the initrd image. It is too big to fit in the floppy boot
image. So I want to put syslinux and the kernel on the floppy image,
which I have working. Then put the initrd on the cdrom. I have used a
setup similar to this but its been awhile. Icant get the kernel to see
the initrd. in syslinux.cfg I have initrd=cdrom:initrd. 

Anyone have any hints on how to work around this? I am thinking I should
have used flash disks instead. But I am stuck with 5 of these units and
would like to use the cdroms, next time I will go flash.

Thanx
DuWayne Holsbeck
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