similar to: memdisk: DOS as a PreOS

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

Hi Is PXELinux supporting Pre-Os by MemDisk? I want to boot PCs to a DOS image floppy in Pre-OS mode and if it had no task to do continue the boot to Windows. Behrad

Hi, I'm the maintainer ROCK Linux (www.rocklinux.org). We are using isolinux on our Install-CDs for x86 systems. We - as most other distributions too - are running in the problem that even minimalistc kernels are slowly growing and sometimes don't fit on 1.44 MB floppies anymore. 2.5.x kernels with initramfs are even bigger than 2.88 MB in some cases... Until now it always has been

Hi, Just FYI: I've create a template disk image + small shell script for creating a multi-disk linux boot floppies for kernels and/or initrd's with a size > 1.44 MB. It's based on FreeDOS Beta 8, the XMSdsk ramdisk and Loadlin: http://www.rocklinux.org/people/clifford/MDLBL/ I primary wrote it for ROCK Linux <www.rocklinux.org> but it might be usefull for everyone who

Hi I'm using memdisk as part of CD Shell' isolinux. I've created custom floppy disk image 8440kB size. I've put FreeDOS kernel and bootsector into the floppy. Boot process goes fine with this command: isolinux /boot/memdisk initrd=/ximg/fdos.img c=60 h=8 s=36 floppy The problems begin when I try to run FreeDOS memory manager emm386 from the floppy image. my config.sys: ...

Hi list, I've used sys & pxelinux now many times, it's really a useful toy. I found esp. syslinux very helpful as it allows to COMPLETELY boot from multiple disks. However, I could never use a 'vanilla' syslinux for that. I'm doomed to use Distributor patched versions, which I don't really like. Why is that? Read on: Well, I can't manage to boot of a 1.44 MB

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

I've very new to this... what I want to achieve, is to have my clients network boot - and then be presented with a menu, allowing them *well, me* to choose what to do. Maybe, boot from the main hard disk, or boot a disk image from a samba share, or maybe even boot a CD image, instead of having the actual CD in the drive. Also, I would want to be able to change this menu, without actually

I and some other people have problems with running the freedos image included in Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), when using memdisk for floppy emulation. Memdisk starts booting the image and freedos shows the following menu: 0 Boot Clean 1 Boot UMBPCI (silent) 2 Boot UMBPCI (optimal) 3 Boot UMBPCI (semi-defensive) 4 Boot EMM386 (optimal) 5 Boot EMM386 (semi-defensive) 6 Boot no UMB (defensive) 7 Boot

I can successfully boot several DOS images on a USB thumbdrive using SysLinux/Memdisk. But, I'd like to load some DOS USB drivers to see the other (common) files on the same USB drive. Is this possible?? Boot memdisk/syslinux from a DOS image on USB .. and then read the USB as another drive?? thx <<jrxnelson -at- yahoo.com>> __________________________________________________

Here is the script I put together now. I hope I haven't overlooked anything. You might need to modify the first section of variables to suit your setup. Ofcourse you need to run this as root. May be some version of this should be included with syslinux? Basically given an existing floppy image, it creates a larger image and copies its contents over and sets up the bootsector of the

> No. Big real mode is not real mode, and in particular > MEMDISK doesn't have the control over what mode transitions > the world outside MEMDISK performs. i understand. if only dos will be used (without himem, emm386 or something like that) that the cpu will be leaved in real mode, is that correct? and e.g. bios update would work... mfg johannes

(FreeDOS developers, I apologize for the redundant parts of this message. But I want to bring the SYSLINUX folks into the discussion, and the SourceForge mailing list archives are broken.) Background: I have a little Sourceforge project (http://unattended.sourceforge.net/) for which I use SYSLINUX to provide CD-ROM and PXE boot support for my boot disk. And it works great with MS-DOS. However,

I have a matrix, I would like to use it like I use where query on an SQL table Let's say my matrix is > wok who task 1 joe task1 2 joe task2 3 joe task3 4 jack task1 5 jack task2 I want to extract a matrix that contains only rows where who = "joe" and task != "task2" The result would be the following matrix 1 joe task1 2 joe task3 How can I do

Thanks for Remko for his help to solve the fractional cylinder problem. But there is the second problem, the boot disk failure (see below << [B]) # but when booting via PXE (pxelinux.cfg/default) ... LABEL t KERNEL memdisk c=2 h=256 s=63 APPEND initrd=disk.img # the following things occur boot: t Loading memdisk Loading disk.img ...................................(16MB)......... Ready.

....."We are looking at Argon, they seem to have the best menu system. The sad thing is, they dont support alot of our image types, we will use their menu system to select pxelinux which will do all the real work. So, they get the money just because they have a menu system, and pxelinux does most of the work. Another negative is the configuration is all done through a bad windows GUI."

hi there, some problem: -setup dhcp -setup tftp -setup pxelinux (?!) -dhcp: ok, client get correkt ip and so on -tftp: ok, client downloads pxelinux.0 -pxelinunx: seemed to be ok bootscreen: <snip> boot: loading memdisk... loading xyz.img Ready. the problem is, the image do not start. after the "ready" prompt nothing happens. the image file has generated from a bootable floppy

Memdisk 2.08 does not appear to be able to boot an XP DOS image (it starts to boot and then hangs). XP DOS appears to be borrowed from WinME (v4.90.3000). I was trying to make a multiple boot CD with Bart's method: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk but substituting Brads TCP boot disk instead of Barts: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/index.htm Brad uses XPs DOS as it

Hello, I'm investigating ways to boot a DOS floppy image stored on the FAT32 EFI System Partition using Syslinux and Memdisk. The system will be running Win8 using UEFI mode (GPT disks) and secure boot off. Change the Windows efi boot loader is the easy part... With the current syslinux's alpha version (6.0), is it possible to boot the syslinux's efi module from the FAT32 EFI

Good day Ercolino, Are you using the ELTORITO.SYS DOS CD-ROM drive driver? You should be, if you're using MEMDISK. You might also enjoy some of the discussion here[1]. Also, as an aside, you can create an 8 MB superfloppy image which could contain your BIOS/firmware upgrade. Maybe search the mailing-list archive for "superfloppy". Have a nice day. - Shao Miller [1]