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2007 Jun 29
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memdisk on sony vaio (phoenix bios)
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I've been learning how to package floppy images to boot from USB flash.
The USB devices seem to work on a huge variety of platforms, especially AMI bios machines.
All the new DELL Inspiron notebooks work flawlessly, happily booting my USB Syslinux setups.
Along comes a new Sony Vaio (VGN-FZ140E) with a Phoenix bios and none of the memdisk floppy images work -- they hang. My linux kernel based images still boot fine.
When this happens, what is a good strategy? So far I've tried:
-- looking for the latest bios (Sony seems to hide the location for this)
-- upgrade to the latest Syslin...