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Re: Boot Floppy: msg#00287

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Subject: Re: Boot Floppy


"Joe Magee" <jmagee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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



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