[gPXE] Fwd: Re: gPXE floppy disk not boot

[Marty Connor]

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Subject: Re: [gPXE] gPXE floppy disk not boot
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:28:46 -0500
From: Milton Labanda <1000ton.lab at gmail.com>
To: Marty Connor <mdc at etherboot.org>

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 <mdc at etherboot.org>

> 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 /
>
>
>