On Fri, 30 May 2003, Steven Timm wrote:
>
> I know this is slightly off-topic, but I figure that since there
> are a lot of people on this list who do PXE on a regular basis
> someone may have an answer for this:
>
> We frequently need to boot either disk diagnostics or BIOS flashers
> which are based either in DOS or Windows '98. At the moment
> we boot them off of floppy disk, but we are wondering if anyone
> has successfully managed to boot them over PXE (or, for that matter,
> via LILO in a standalone DOS partition on the hard disk?) We are
> examining the feasibility of going without floppy drives
> in future purchases but would need to resolve this issue if we do.
> USB floppies aren't an option because a large portion of my legacy
> hardware has no working USB ports.
I boot drdos, freedos by PXE. Works well. Follow the docs;-)
Particularly the syslinux doc which has some of the info you need.
Here's my PXE directory layout:
[summer@magpie PXE]$ find $PWD -type f
/tftpboot/PXE/pxelinux.0
/tftpboot/PXE/pxelinux.cfg/default
/tftpboot/PXE/pxelinux.cfg/C0A800
/tftpboot/PXE/kernel.options
/tftpboot/PXE/t
/tftpboot/PXE/messages
/tftpboot/PXE/images/freedos/help.txt
/tftpboot/PXE/images/freedos/FD16BOOT.IMG
/tftpboot/PXE/images/freedos/FD32BOOT.IMG
/tftpboot/PXE/images/freedos/MEMTEST.IMG
/tftpboot/PXE/images/rescue/initrd.img
/tftpboot/PXE/images/rescue/message.txt
/tftpboot/PXE/images/rescue/partimage-0.6.1.tar.bz2
/tftpboot/PXE/images/rescue/vmlinuz
/tftpboot/PXE/images/Mandrake/help.txt
/tftpboot/PXE/images/memdisk
/tftpboot/PXE/images/RedHat/initrd.img
/tftpboot/PXE/images/RedHat/vmlinuz
/tftpboot/PXE/images/RedHat/help.txt
/tftpboot/PXE/images/RedHat/README
/tftpboot/PXE/images/debian/dl-initrd
/tftpboot/PXE/images/debian/vmlinuz.tftpboot
/tftpboot/PXE/images/debian/help.txt
/tftpboot/PXE/images/debian/tftpboot.img
/tftpboot/PXE/images/debian/root.bin
/tftpboot/PXE/images/dosboot.img
/tftpboot/PXE/images/sarge/cdrom-initrd.gz
/tftpboot/PXE/images/sarge/vmlinuz
/tftpboot/PXE/images/sarge/net-initrd.gz
/tftpboot/PXE/splash.lss
/tftpboot/PXE/z.lss
/tftpboot/PXE/splash.ppm
/tftpboot/PXE/splish.lss
[
These are the most relevant config lines. Regrettably, many are too long
to post sensibly.
label dx
KERNEL images/memdisk
APPEND initrd=images/linux/network.img
IPAPPEND 1
label d1
kernel images/memdisk
append initrd=images/dosboot.img
label d2
kernel images/memdisk
append initrd=images/freedos/FD16BOOT.IMG
label d3
kernel images/memdisk
append initrd=images/freedos/FD32BOOT.IMG
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
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