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Floppy to boot from CD?

I have built a live-CD that we're going to be using on a bunch of computers soon. Some of our computers that won't boot from CD. They will boot from floppy, however, so I'd like to buid a boot floppy that will then boot from the CD.

Can I get a floppy to boot a CD? Or will I have to tell it to just use the CD as the root file system, and boot the kernel on the floppy? How can I do this? I've tried the following syslinux.cfg with no success (I get a kernel panic looking for ext3 on the CD):

Code:

default linux

prompt 1

display boot.msg

timeout 100

label linux

        kernel vmlinuz

        append initrd=initrd.img ro hdc=cdrom,ide-cd,ide-scsi,scsi_mod,sg,sr_mod devfs=mount root=/dev/hdc,iso9660

If none of this works, can I do a net boot somehow? Does this require BIOS support?

Your simplest option might be to use Smart Boot Manager:

http://btmgr.webframe.org/index.php3?body=about.html

I've used it both from floppy and CD, and it works very well.

I found these notes about Knoppix which should resolve your problem as you are probably using the same boot system.