[gPXE] Boot very slow or not boot

Shao Miller Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Sat Jan 30 16:50:54 EST 2010


Milton Labanda wrote:
> Some one know why gPXE boot very slow or not boot.
> I test boot DamSmallLinux and  get the message:
> minirt24.gz.....................................................................................
> ....................................................................................................
> ....................................................................................................
> ....................................................................................................
> And fynally no boot

That looks like an initrd.  I didn't see which command you used to get 
it, so it's hard to know if you did:

gPXE> initrd minirt24.gz

Did you forget to load the Linux kernel?

> or with dos
> dosboot.img ..........................................................
> ...................................................................ok.
> And do nothing more.

This also looks like you'd wish to use it as an initrd for MEMDISK.  Did 
you forget to load MEMDISK?

> ...

- Shao Miller

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