I am still unable to build and boot large floppy images. 1.44, 2.88, and any size HD images work great. No problem. However I have BIOSes with problems booting HD images and would like to get large floppy working. I have tried every script and method I could find with PC DOC 7 and MS DOS 6.22. I have spent too much time analyzing boot sectors. So a few questions: 1. Who has actually see it work? 2. How did you make the image? Assume nothing, the more detail the better. 3. Can you provide a URL to a large floppy image? I cannot tell if I have a BIOS problem or an image creation problem. I'd just like to see one boot. An ideal image would be blank with COMMAND.COM only. Thanks.
I use a 10MB floppy image with ISOLinux. If you have a working 2.88MB
bootable image, and just want to enlarge it look at the
"{new,}mkfloppyimg.sh" script in
http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui/downloads.html. Also don't
forget to tell memdisk about the non-standard geometry.
- Murali
Egan Ford wrote:
>I am still unable to build and boot large floppy images.
>
>1.44, 2.88, and any size HD images work great. No problem. However I have
>BIOSes with problems booting HD images and would like to get large floppy
>working.
>
>I have tried every script and method I could find with PC DOC 7 and MS DOS
>6.22. I have spent too much time analyzing boot sectors.
>
>So a few questions:
>
>1. Who has actually see it work?
>2. How did you make the image? Assume nothing, the more detail the better.
>3. Can you provide a URL to a large floppy image? I cannot tell if I have
>a BIOS problem or an image creation problem. I'd just like to see one
boot.
>An ideal image would be blank with COMMAND.COM only.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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I use 8MB DOS images with pxelinux to load firmware. Which platform would you like them for (I have many). On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:49:23PM -0700, Egan Ford wrote:> I am still unable to build and boot large floppy images. > > 1.44, 2.88, and any size HD images work great. No problem. However I have > BIOSes with problems booting HD images and would like to get large floppy > working. > > I have tried every script and method I could find with PC DOC 7 and MS DOS > 6.22. I have spent too much time analyzing boot sectors. > > So a few questions: > > 1. Who has actually see it work? > 2. How did you make the image? Assume nothing, the more detail the better. > 3. Can you provide a URL to a large floppy image? I cannot tell if I have > a BIOS problem or an image creation problem. I'd just like to see one boot. > An ideal image would be blank with COMMAND.COM only. > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.