Re: pxegrub and memdisk

[Hans-Christian Armingeon]

Am Montag, 29. April 2002 18:36 schrieb James Carter:
> hi, all.
>
> i am trying to use memdisk (http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php) to
> boot dos floppy images over the network. as i understand it, memdisk
> acts like a linux kernel and grub should be able to boot it ok. however,
> when i try i get the following error:
>
> root (nd)
>   Filesystem type is tftp, using whole disk
> kernel /tftpboot/memdisk
>   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3600, size=0x0]
http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php:
MEMDISK is an auxillary module used in conjunction with one of the SYSLINUX 
bootloaders, usually PXELINUX or ISOLINUX. You need a disk image as well as the 
memdisk file itself. As far as the bootloader is concerned, memdisk is the 
"kernel" and disk image is the initial ramdisk (initrd).

Read carefully the last few words: memdisk is the "kernel" and disk image is 
the initial ramdisk (initrd).
Maybe I got you wrong?

I am trying it now.
>
> Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
>
> Press any key to continue
>
>
> does anyone have any idea what i might be doing wrong, or think of a
> reason why this shouldn't work?
>
> thanks.

Johnny