Subject: Re: Boot Floppy
To: Joe Magee <jmagee@starrider.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/26/2002 19:31:54
"Joe Magee" <jmagee@starrider.com> writes:
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> I created a boot floppy that brings up a network stack. This floppy works
> fine in virtually all PC Compatible platforms I've tried. However, if I make
> an image of this floppy and use PXE to download it and execute it, it will
> not complete the boot process on a platform where it will boot from a
> physical floppy drive. Any ideas how I can fix this?

PXE doesn't simulate a floppy drive. It tries to execute the image it
downloads. What you're noticing is that if you try to execute a floppy
image it doesn't work.


Perry