-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [gPXE] gPXE floppy disk not boot Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:28:46 -0500 From: Milton Labanda <[email protected]> To: Marty Connor <[email protected]>
now It worked nice, I formated with /dev/fd0u1440 in some cases and saved well. In other case the format of floopy was bad but after use dd or cat gPXE worked well as well. 2010/7/19 Marty Connor <[email protected]> > On 7/19/10 9:13 AM, Milton Labanda wrote: > > I downloaded and burning gPXE1.0.1 and 1.0.1 images into some floppy > disks > > but i can not boot any computer. I use the following comands: > > > > $ cat gPXE-1.0.0.dsk > /dev/fd0 and too > > $ dd if=gPXE-1.0.0.dsk of=/dev/fd0 > > > > On virtual box the .dsk images work well but on > > real machines not boot the floppies and show : > > > > AX:004 BX: 005. CX:789 DX: .666 > > AX:... BX: ... CX:....... DX: ....... > > AX:... BX: ... CX:....... DX: ....... > > AX:... BX: ... CX:....... DX: ....... > > Floppies are very sensitive to media errors. > > I recommend you low-level format the floppy: > > http://linux.die.net/man/8/fdformat > > which will format each track of the floppy and verify it. > > Then use: > > dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/dev/fd0 > > (or whatever device you are using) to write your .dsk image to the newly > formatted floppy. > > USB keys and .usb imagesare a lot more reliable, but I understand that > they are also more expensive, and in some cases machines you want to > boot may not have USB booting support. > > Please try the ideas above and let us know how things go. > > / Marty / > > > _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
