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...w.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html to make a bootable CD to flash my bios I get to mkisofs step, but what I get is not what I think I want. I dont understand if I unmount /tmp/floppy how the Mkisofs command of: mkisofs -o bootcd.iso -b FDOEM.144 FDOEM.144 how I get everything in /tmp/floppy Here is what I did: wget http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz gunzip FDOEM.144.gz mkdir /tmp/floppy mount -t vfat -o loop FDOEM.144 /tmp/floppy Copied the flash files to /tmp/floppy umount /tmp/floppy mkisofs -o bootcd.iso -b F...

I'm having trouble getting memdisk 6.03pre18 to boot large floppies and wondering whether I'm doing something incorrectly. 1) Download http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz 2) gunzip FDOEM.144.gz 3) newmkfloppyimg.sh 8 FDOEM144.img fdoem_8mb.img 4) newmkfloppyimg.sh 9 FDOEM144.img fdoem_9mb.img 5) Use following pxelinux.cfg: LABEL works LINUX syslinux/memdisk INITRD fdoem_8mb.img APPEND floppy pause LABEL infinite_memdisk_loop LINUX syslinux/memdisk INITRD fd...

> I'm having trouble getting memdisk 6.03pre18 to boot large floppies and > wondering whether I'm doing something incorrectly. > > 1) Download http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDOEM.144.gz > 2) gunzip FDOEM.144.gz > 3) newmkfloppyimg.sh 8 FDOEM144.img fdoem_8mb.img > 4) newmkfloppyimg.sh 9 FDOEM144.img fdoem_9mb.img > 5) Use following pxelinux.cfg: > > LABEL works > LINUX syslinux/memdisk > INITRD fdoem_8mb.img > APPEND floppy pause > > LABEL...

...ount a buried partition from within a hard drive image.) To enlarge existing floppy images, I originally learned of newmkfloppyimg.sh from this mailing list, and had followed the procedure http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Large_floppy_images to go from a current 1.44MB FreeDOS fdboot or fdoem to a 10MB version thereof, but trying to boot the result with MEMDISK led to an infinite loop of MEMDISK banners. That's where the discussion started, and turns out I titled the thread poorly: it really has nothing to do with MEMDISK! 1) newmkfloppyimg.sh calls mkdosfs to create an enlarged...

...> from within a hard drive image.) To enlarge existing floppy images, I > originally learned of newmkfloppyimg.sh from this mailing list, and had > followed the procedure > http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Large_floppy_images > to go from a current 1.44MB FreeDOS fdboot or fdoem to a 10MB version > thereof, but trying to boot the result with MEMDISK led to an infinite > loop of MEMDISK banners. That's where the discussion started, and turns > out I titled the thread poorly: it really has nothing to do with MEMDISK! > > 1) newmkfloppyimg.sh calls mkdo...

On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:54, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >On 07/08/2014 11:26 AM, Ady wrote: >> >> It's interesting that you ask this, because every document related to >> newmkfloppyimg.sh specifically recommends adding: >> floppy c=$CYLINDERS s=$SECTORS h=$HEADS >> to the MEMDISK arguments. >> > >It would be important for floppies to know