Re: Boot Loading Problems.

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de>]

Hi Luiz,

On the bootdisk, you must start HIMEM.SYS with "/testmem:off".
Otherwise it will kill your ramdisk.

Heinrich

Luiz de Barros wrote:
> 
> Dear ALL,
> 
> I am having a problem using netboot.
> 1- I install bootp + TFTPd in the server.
> 2- I Generate a boot image for DOS with mknbi-dos from a bootable
>    and 100% running Floppy with DOS 6.22 + LanManager Client.
> 3- I Generate the bootfile for the bootprom disk for my NE2000
>    at IRQ11 ADR 0x300
> 
> The system starts ok, the packet driver is working ok.
> The boot module then asks for a bootp server ( my server responds and
> sends the image generated in #2 to the card.
> The software starts the image....
> 
> Starting MSDOS
> 
> Himem is testing Extended memory.... done
> 
> bad command of file name a:\emm386.exe  ( it is on the bootfile ).
> bad of missing command interpreter
> 
> then it asks for the location of command.com ( also on the bootfile ).
> 
> It seems as if after himem.sys it had lost the redirection from a: to
> ramdisk...
> 
> Am i doing anything wrong?
> 
> Luiz