Re: PXE boot of disk diagnostics and/or BIOS flashers

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:58, Steven Timm wrote:
> I know this is slightly off-topic, but I figure that since there
> are a lot of people on this list who do PXE on a regular basis
> someone may have an answer for this:
> 
> We frequently need to boot either disk diagnostics or BIOS flashers
> which are based either in DOS or Windows '98.  At the moment
> we boot them off of floppy disk, but we are wondering if anyone
> has successfully managed to boot them over PXE  (or, for that matter,
> via LILO in a standalone DOS partition on the hard disk?)  We are
> examining the feasibility of going without floppy drives
> in future purchases but would need to resolve this issue if we do.
> USB floppies aren't an option because a large portion of my legacy
> hardware has no working USB ports.

go to the pxelinux pages.
search for memdisk.

problem solved.

-sv