Thanks for your quick response! Here are my latest findings…..
From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UPDATE: [Unattended] Bootdisk hang on an intel D845GEBV2 mb Date: 18 Jan 2004 10:37:00 -0500
"Stephen Briney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When using these motherboards the system prints something like > Starting MS Dos. And then straight away, the disk > access light goes out and nothing else.
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> The machines do a similar thing when I try and boot them with a boot > disk I created in windows xp with the format tool + make the disk > bootable ticked.
OK, so this is probably not a problem with the Unattended boot disk in particular. That is good news for me and bad news for you :-).
Wait, have you tried booting your XP-created disk on another machine? (What kind of boot loader does XP put on that disk, anyway? Anybody know?)
> The machines will boot with a redhat 7.1 kickstart boot disk. I > think that they are made with some version of free dos but can't be > sure.
The RedHat boot disks use SYSLINUX to load a Linux kernel directly, which is completely different.
As a first pass at figuring this out:
1) In the "bootdisk" directory of the distribution, you can find an "empty-boot.img.gz" file. Unzip it to obtain an empty-boot.img file, which is a floppy image of a minimal MS-DOS boot disk. See if you can boot that.
No cant boot, just does the same thing!!
2) In http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/ , you can find a "freedos.img" file. It is a floppy image of a minimal FreeDOS boot disk (somewhat out of date, perhaps). See if you can boot that too.
Yes works fine!!!! Is there a planned free dos version of the boot disk?
- Pat
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Many Thanks, Steve
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