Re: darn buggy bios

In Nero I have the option of Hard Disk Emulation, which I beleive pretends
to be the first physical hard drive. You need an image with a partition
layout and all that. It's different to no emulation. Though I dont know if
it's different enough to still work.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D R Holsbeck" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] 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
> > > -- 
> > > [email protected]
> > >
> > > "It says he made us all to be just like him.  So if we're dumb, then
god
> > > is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side."
> > > -- Frank Zappa
> > >
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