similar to: How to remove Memdisk

Folks: I've used etherboot to create a zrom that successfully brings a image of a bootable floppy into high memory. What I'd like to do is glue memdisk in so that it can hook int13 and serve the transferred image for booting when etherboot hands control back to the BIOS. The trick, and this is where I'd appreciate "gotchas", pointers or "this is an approach I

For anyone wanting to boot an .ISO with MEMDISK: http://git.etherboot.org/?p=people/andytim/syslinux.git;a=shortlog;h=ref s/heads/memdisk-iso NOTE: Your protected-mode OS (Windows, Linux, *BSD) booted from such a MEMDISK will not magically find the MEMDISK image in RAM and use it as a CD without a MEMDISK driver. There are currently 0 MEMDISK drivers in the field, but that might change someday.

I have added instructions to memdisk.doc for how to disable MEMDISK. However, it's unlikely that this will work if you're running under DOS, since DOS will be very unhappy about drives changing underneath it. Anyway, until the next (pre)release comes out, here are the instructions: --- memdisk.doc 27 Apr 2004 06:49:36 -0000 1.10 +++ memdisk.doc 6 Jul 2004 01:29:03 -0000 @@ -122,5

Good day to all, Gert Hulselmans requested a feature for MDISKCHK.COM that would function roughly like GETARGS.COM[1] by Murali Krishnan Ganapathy: DOS SET command output for MEMDISK kernel arguments passed by previous boot-loaders. He also needed to support the case for MEMDISK-in-a-MEMDISK type situations, where all MEMDISK kernel arguments could be gathered together and output as a list

Below, attached, and available at the 'ifmemdsk' branch at: http://git.zytor.com/?p=users/sha0/syslinux.git;a=commitdiff;h=a975c12919bbd48739fede4ebfe099d98b87192e Review welcome! - Shao Miller ----- From a975c12919bbd48739fede4ebfe099d98b87192e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shao Miller <shao.miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 05:24:46 -0400 Subject: [PATCH]

Hi, "David Ehrmann" <exobyte at bigvalley.net> schrieb am 10.07.03 11:02:54: > I've been doing that for a while, but I seem to be finding conflicting > information. Some sources focus on the boot ROM aspect of etherboot > while others think etherboot is an alternative to PXE. Correct me if I'm > wrong, but it seems like there is etherboot the program and

I'm trying to use this universal DOS TCP/IP boot disk available here: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/ It requires an MS-DOS formatted disk created by Windows XP. It works great as a floppy but doesn't boot at all with memdisk. The problem can be simplified down to just the XP boot disk. If you make an MS-DOS startup disk with XP on a floppy, dd the floppy to an image

Good day to all, For anyone who feels adventurous, there is an experimental memdisk.c32 COMBOOT32 module[1] now outside of the official Syslinux development efforts, which appears to be functional for a few test cases, but should be considered UNSTABLE. It is a work-in-progress, so please do not report bugs for it at this time. It's for use with Syslinux 3.85, specifically. It was too

Hello ALL, I've got a diskless server working (under Gentoo), booting on it works. (a linux session start with no problem.) My Big problem, is to get Memdisk to boot with PXE. In fact memdisk is loaded, but it cannot find the img file. I've tried a lot of thing, but nothing works... tftp use : /diskless the config file for PXE in then in : /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/ the root for the

Hallo, versuche mit Pxelinux Windows 98 ?ber das Netz zu laden. Hierzu verwende ich Memdisk und ein Imgage einer funktionierenden Startdiskette (1,44 MB). Memdisk und das Image werden korrekt geladen. Auch startet die Autoexec.bat korrekt. Beim Start von Windows bricht das System allerdings ab. Mein Verdacht ist, dass es an dem noch im Speicher stehenden Memdisk liegt. Gibt es eine M?glichkeit

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

Hi! Sorry to bother you, but I don't know where else to ask about memdisk. I'm trying to use memdisk + pxelinux with a DOS boot image, is this possible? It works great with redhat and debian install floppy images, but my freedos, and win98 boot disk just won't boot! Is there some special way to prepare a dos image other than doing a sys a: or format a: /s in DOS, and then dd-ing it

tom & peter Hi Guys, I have a little problem I'm hoping you can help me with. When I try to boot toms image, memdisk states a "fractional end sector" while loading the image. It continues with the process until I get a "Booting..." prompt and then freezes. Here's the whole story: A while back I acquired version tomsrtbt 2.0.103, to make a multi-image boot cd as

Hi, I've successfully got DOS booting over PXE with Memdisk, but as RAM is severely limited in the PCs I'm using (only 32-64MB) I can't load a huge Memdisk image to run large DOS programs, Windows, etc. Are there any programs out there like Memdisk, but instead of storing the disk in RAM they read it over the network? (A "netdisk" program.) This would be a really useful

A kind request for help please. MEMDISK is causing an issue with the Dell OptiPlex GX280 and GX620 platforms. Booting a PC-DOS/Ghost, disk image is successful (and proper) when using version 3.83. See results below: MEMDISK 3.83: Ramdisk at 0x07eeaa00, length 0x007bc000 command line: initrd=images/ghostclient/280_620/osbootc.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk MEMDISK: Image seems to have fractional end

Excellent, excellent work, Peter! Is it possible to unload memdisk and the initial ram disk after chaining to a subsequent shell? I'd like to boot a small dos image via pxelinux & memdisk that creates a large ram disk containing core Win98 files in a compressed volume, then mount the compressed volume, fire up Win98 from it, and then unload memdisk and the initial, small ram disk. Dave

Some additional fields from the EDD-4 spec. draft for the Device Parameter Table have been added into the structure in setup.c and memdisk.inc. These were added in the hopes of resolving a FreeDOS MEMDISK bug on IBM ThinkPads. --- memdisk/memdisk.inc | 11 +++++++++++ memdisk/setup.c | 10 ++++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/memdisk/memdisk.inc

Hi all, We are hoping to update our BIOSes remotely with pxelinux and memdisk (it is for a 600 node Beowulf cluster with no floppy access). The DOS floppy loads and starts, however somehow the flash utility 'phlash.exe' or 'phlash16.exe' are both unable to load the provided rom image and just stop doing nothing. It looks like it can't access the rom image somehow, which is

Hi, I managed to boot diskless windows 98 clients using memdisk with etherboot and PXE hdd images. Unfortunately, I need my clients to run games and many refuse to work properly when windows is in do compatibility mode(e.g.. fifa 2005 and daemon tools for mounting cd images). Is there a way to to "make" windows 98 not use the compatibility mode ? I even searched for a commercial

Hello syslinuxers I'm stuck with a scientific problem which gives me headaches: I have a laptop (Gateway MX3410) which has a SD memory card reader. Recently an interesting thought crossed my mind: why don't I setup a 2GB SD card as a harddrive and put some rescue tools on it. So I dug on the net and I came across the idea of using memdisk to boot floppy images without the need of a