Re: darn buggy bios

Isnt that the same as noemulation mode? Which is the original problem
:-( The bios cant handle it.

My current thought is to create a small initrd that will fit into the
boot floppy image. This small ramdisk will mount the cdrom and unpack
the PXES image into a ram disk, than do a change root to boot the pxes
system.

Should work, I will let yall know how it goes.

If anyone has a better idea, I am all ears.

DuWayne

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 18:50, Tim Bates wrote:
> 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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