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I have been trying to track down information on building HD boot images for ISOLINUX and MEMDISK, and so far, haven't had a whole lot of luck. I've found a number of sources describing the process of setting up ISOLINUX and MEMDISK, and how to configure the boot CD to boot various OS's. I've also read through Bart Lagerweij's BootCD/ModBoot pages, and Mikhail

I read the following about memdisk : .... For any other size, the image is assumed to be a hard disk image, and should typically have an MBR and a partition table. The disk C/H/S geometry is determined by examining the partition table, so the entire image should be partitioned for proper operation. .... I'd like to create a bootable cd, wich boots a linux and some other tools. While

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]) ... command line: initrd=disk.img harddisk c=2 h=256 s=63 BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk Disk is hard disk, 16128K CHS=2/256/63 <<<< [A] ... Loading boot sector... booting... SYSLINUX 2.04 welcome! boot: 1 [single dot]

Memdisk 2.08 cannot boot an XP boot floppy image (XP appears to use WinME boot files for its bootable floppy). For example: http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm This disk will not boot with Memdisk (Memdisk starts to load the image and then hangs). I'm using Bart's tools to build a boot CD: http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/ Which uses Isolinux and Memdisk.

Hey all, I'am able to use pxelinux to successfully boot a particular kernel and image on various IBM PC's ex. 6287-41U and 6591-34U. However, using the same setup (ie. dhcp, tftp, pxelinux.0, pxelinux.cfg, networkcard, bootrom, ram memory) on an IBM 6282-73U my kernel and image decompress fine but I'am getting a... Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01 I realize

Hello ! Maybe passing argument root=/dev/ram0 or root=/dev/rd/0 would help ? I use isolinux and it works in the isolinux.cfg sylvain > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:11:38 -0300 (ADT) > From: Geddes <jgeddes at unb.ca> > To: syslinux at zytor.com > Subject: [syslinux] Unable to mount root fs > > > Hey all, > > I'am able to use pxelinux to

Hello. I've been trying to install registered Origin 7.5 on wine, using both the default build for SuSE 9.3 and the newest rpm from sourceforge. The installation proceeds flawlessly, everything seems to be fine. The installer finds proper user/institution registration fields. Unfortunatelly, when I start Origin for the first time, the registration window pops up. All the information

Hi All, First post and hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction for this problem. I did a bit of googling and found some hints but nothing concrete. We are using Syslinux and a FAT32 USB thumb drive (single partition) to boot a customized Debian OS which works very well with newer motherboards. However we have a few older Dell machines that simply hangs when trying to boot

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

Hi, Quoting the memdisk.doc: Similarly, if you're booting DOS over the network using PXELINUX, you can use the "keeppxe" option and use the generic PXE (UNDI) NDIS network driver, which is part of the PROBOOT.EXE distribution from Intel: Does anyone know what this means? It sounds like a generic network driver for DOS exists. I have a copy of the PROBOOT.EXE, but I can't work

On 07/09/2014 04:00 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > So this would seem consistent that this is the FAT12/FAT16 boundary that > breaks stuff. Perhaps FreeDOS has a problem with FAT16 on floppies? If I understand things correctly, a bootable floppy has two key pieces of executable code: the 512-byte boot sector, and the kernel loaded by that boot sector. The kernel can be large, and thus

Hi to all, from syslinux 4.06 and 5.00 pre 12 came the same dump. Background: While trying to install syslinux on small (700 MB) FAT16 Partition on HP Server got Red Screen of Death with a register dump. Illegal OpCode EAX=00001F01 EBX=000001A4 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000019F EBP=0000FBFA ESI=000007BE EDI=00000800 DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 CS:EIP=0000:000083A6 SS:ESP=1000:0000AFF6

Hi, "Mircea Popescu" <nufarul.alb at go.ro> schrieb am 29.01.02: > I have this problem: > I've partitioned my hard drive with PQMagic 7 in the following way: > hda1 - fat32 > hda2 - ext2 > hda3 - fat16 > hda4 - extended > hda5 - Linux Swap > hda6 - fat32 > hda7 - ext2 > hda8 - fat32 > > I've put syslinux on

Hi all, I've tried and retried to make some USB sticks bootable. I started by making one partition, labeling it FAT16, copying a kernel, an initrd and a very simple syslinux.cfg file. I ran syslinux /dev/sda1 on it. Didn't boot. I tried placing on it the mbr.bin file ('cat mbr.bin > /dev/sda') but still no boot. Then I tried various combinations of these two. Labeling

I know syslinux supports FAT16 and works very well, but how about FAT32? Does syslinux support FAT32? If so, which version? eg., 3.11 and above Thanks!

Gene, thanks for doing "Reply-All". I only get digest, so this keeps me in the loop. Appreciated. > which appears to be included in diskstart.inc. I will have to dig in and > see > > how this all gets compiled (pointers always appreciated :-) ). > > Yes. > Is the build process documented? Or am I just going to have to plod through the makefiles? > As Ady said,

I would like to boot FreeDOS ISO image from USB memory stick using syslinux. I have done following: 1) I created a partition to my 2GB memory stick: root at debian64:~# fdisk -lu /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2013 MB, 2013265920 bytes 62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 3932160 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size

Hi to all, While trying to install syslinux on small (700 MB) FAT16 Partition on HP Server got Red Screen of Death with a register dump. Illegal OpCode EAX=00001F01 EBX=000001A4 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000019F EBP=0000FBFA ESI=000007BE EDI=00000800 DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 CS:EIP=0000:000083A6 SS:ESP=1000:0000AFF6 EFLAGS=00000206 Tested many versions of syslinux: from 3.63 to 4.06:

> On 2019-4-11 13:29, Lu Wei wrote: > > On 2019-4-10 1:20, Ady Ady via Syslinux wrote: > >>>>> #This item fails > >>>>> label dos > >>>>> menu label MS-^DOS 7.1 > >>>>> com32 chain.c32 msdos7=io.sys > >>> > >>> IO.SYS and COMMAND.COM are copied from a Windows98 system on another >

Hi, I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos tcp/ip connect to windows network. I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable floppy. But when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead show a multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't work. Pls help Jitender