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[kocoman]

How to PXE boot into DOS and mount a writable SMB share?

thanks

[Sha0]

How to PXE boot into DOS and mount a writable SMB share?

• Follow Bart's instructions to create a network boot disk
• Create an image of the floppy disk. Personally, I find it easiest to work with a floppy disk image all along, using virtual machine software such as QEmu
• Boot the network boot disk image with PXELINUX and MEMDISK

Here is an example PXELINUX config-file:

DEFAULT bartnetboot

LABEL bartnetboot

  KERNEL memdisk

  APPEND initrd=bartnetboot.vfd

where bartnetboot.vfd is the name of your floppy disk image.

Read the documentation for PXELINUX. Read the documentation for MEMDISK.

[rebit]

You can use "vblade" and ipxe to boot a .iso file like FreeDOS or DOS image file.

Read the instructions here

http://windowsdiskle...e.wordpress.com

[Sha0]

You can use "vblade" and ipxe to boot a .iso file like FreeDOS or DOS image file.

Read the instructions here

http://windowsdiskle...e.wordpress.com

Sorry, but this won't work.

The iPXE INT 0x13 hook for the AoE SAN will mean that any DOS driver for the network interface (including an UNDI driver) will interfere with the operation of the SAN, and vice versa. That means not being able to mount the SMB share, or even being able to ping from DOS.