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Hi, I saw the Nov. 2006 message on Memdisk having a problem with ThinkPads. I also saw the comment in the memdisk code enabling and disabling A20. I've got a ThinkPad x61t that memdisk is not loading disk images on. The symptom is that it gets as far as saying "Loading boot sector... booting..." Then image partially runs - FreeDOS prints out its kernel message and it's

> > > Ok, that *is* small. I'd worry about a logfile suddenly growing massively, > and freezing your system. (Yes, it has happened here, and then there was > the time a summer student ran something, wouldn't be back until Monday... > and got a 20G logfile, which blew out the NFS-mounted home directory fs, > on which a number of other people resided... including *me*,

I found that if I do not have a local floppy installed and enabled on my client, I will get the error 'Non-system disk' when I try to boot DOS floppy images. NT or Syslinux floppy images boot fine. If I enable the floppy in the BIOS, then it boots the DOS floppies just fine. Is this normal? Is there a workaround? There are MS-DOS images, so perhaps this is an MS-DOS limitation. --

Hello, I seemed to have encountered a problem with memdisk that I have seen before when I was playing around with USB device booting at one time. Here's the scenario: Take fx a image of a PC DOS bootable diskette. Boot the image via memdisk. This should boot fine if you use the built-in motherboard ide controllers (ide0,ide1). Now install a PCI IDE controller and put one IDE disk on the

> Rudy Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I saw the Nov. 2006 message on Memdisk having a problem with ThinkPads. I > also > > saw the comment in the memdisk code enabling and disabling A20. > > > > I've got a ThinkPad x61t that memdisk is not loading disk images on. The > > symptom is that it gets as far as saying "Loading boot sector... >

Hello, I hpe you can help. I have created a botable thumbdrive that allows me to update different bios's using the memdisk module. I have no problems loading the img or ima files on any equiptment other than IBM. I have tried on T43, T60, and T61, no luck. works fine on hp dell and all others tried. Every time after it loads the image it hangs after the message "Loading boot sector...

Hi, I'm doing a small hobby project writing some tools to put DOS boot images and Linux rescue images on a USB stick. For this I have partitioned my USB stick in 2 partitions, one 192MB partition with a VFAT filesystem (for the normal use) and a second partition with an ext3 filesystem. My aim was to provide a graphical menu (grub) to access the different images using memdisk. Since