Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

[Cristian M. <cri...@on...>]

* Roy Wiseman <roy...@ya...> [27-09-05 14:59]:
 
> Hi Cristian,
[...]
> This is great, I think I'll be able to do it simply
> with this. but, this page
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php
> is causing me some grief. it describes a lot about
> what memdisk is and how to use it, but it's not part
> of pxelinux. When I boot PXE linux and get to the
> command line, memdisk is not a valid command, so this
> is not too helpful ... any ideas how to *use* memdisk
> ?


 Ok, so syslinux/pxelinux loads a kernel optionally an initrd, passes
 them some parameters and boots. The memdisk trick is that you can
 simulate with it a new boot environment, so if you load memdisk instead
 of a linux kernel, the initrd loaded can be a floppy image or a disk
 image. See my previously posted pxelinux.cfg/default file .

> Thanks,
> 
> Roy.

mitu