Re: Boot floppies of RC1 broken for VAIO laptop

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

Op 02-12-2006 om 18:36 schreef Rainer Dorsch:
> 
> Hmm....good point, but I would be surprised, if booting from an usb stick 
> would work. It explicitly says in the BIOS floppy, there is no usb stick 
> option. I would be surprised, if an usb stick and a floppy image look 
> identical for the laptop (except the capacity).
> 
> PXE does not work either. The vaio can boot from (USB) floppy drive, 
> (expensive bootable Sony) ATAPI CDDRIVE, hdd. 

To get PXE working, boot from a floppy from the etherboot project,
or the universal one at ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html


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GSt