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Re: tftpboot [works for me]



>here's a kind of solution that "works for me" :
>
>Create a DOS partition and use any DOS variant (FreeDOS, RxDOS, DrDOS) : I
>did not manage to have syslinux working : any clues ? Use loadlin to have
>the kernel and the initrdfrom the dos partition, and here it goes !

Check where syslinux is relocating itself on startup. Dirk Niggerman
found that FreeDOS was overwriting the Netboot interrupt handlers at
the top of memory because it assumed that you could use memory up to
the 640kB mark. It worked after he fixed it to respect that area.
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