Re: darn buggy bios

Can you use hard disk emulation on the CD instead? It'll depend on your
burning program, and I've never used it before so I dont knwo what it works
like.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D R Holsbeck" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 3:23 AM
Subject: [pxes-devel] darn buggy bios


> 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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