>From: Vanessa Conchodon <v.conchodon at smie.com>
>Subject: [syslinux] booting on a dos software
>But now I have to add powermax.exe (a MSDOS tool to test Maxtor
>disks) on this key.
>As I've always been on Unix/Linux system, I don't know what
>to do to run powermax.exe from syslinux.
>I've made a boot floppy disk and tried to copy everything
>on my usb key and put the command.com in kernel field but
>all I have was "COMBOOT image too large".
Vanessa, what you'll need is a bootable DOS floppy--you've got to have a
DOS work-alike system in control to run powermax.exe. Let me presume
you've got a legit copy of MS-DOS. (If not, I'd recommend going to get
a
copy of FreeDOS, though some of the filenames will change in that case.)
You'll have to chain boot to a DOS boot record, which will run IO.SYS and
MSDOS.SYS. Then it would make sense to have a CONFIG.SYS that says
SHELL=POWERMAX.EXE, so it runs your diagnostic, and only it, immediately.
Needless to say, it has to be on a FAT file system partition.
Paul Rogers (paul.rogers at juno.com)
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Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates."
(I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL
:-)
