similar to: memdisk and usb flash devices as primary hard drives.

Hi, I once again have a problem with memdisk failing to boot a harddisk image to update my Thinkpad X200s firmware. I extracted the harddisk image from the eltorito type 4 ISO using the isobar tool. Then I added memdisk using this image as initrd to my grub, rebooted and it boots into PC DOS and then freezes (ctrl-alt-del still works to reboot the system). Inside Qemu however it works fine

Hi Thanx guys for the help on understanding howto read dmi info! I now have a custom boot menu for install of different linux versions based if they have been installed before (reinstall is ok for users, first install is not), and installquirks like if we detect odd hardware, we add install options to redhat installer so it can install anyhow (for instance hp dc7800 who needs pci=nommconf as

Is there a method to reboot a memdisk (floppy) image? I'm working on a DOS-based installation floppy that needs to repartition the hard disk prior to proceeding. DOS will only recognize the updated partition table after a reboot, but I'd like to be able to save information to the currently loaded memdisk floppy disk and simply reboot the image. Possible? I haven't had any luck with

Hi, I was wondering if 1680K floppy support in memdisk was planned, impossible or undesirable :) I noticed RIP is providing a slightly more stuffed 1680K floppy (but no 2880K floppy) and I had hoped memdisk could support this. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

Has anyone managed to get OS/2 to fully boot via Syslinux's memdisk? I have played around with it a bit both as a floppy image and a hard disk image, but either it hangs when loading IBMINT13.I13 driver or doesn't load any .ADD driver and stops saying it cannot find COUNTRY.SYS (it needs at least one .ADD disk driver loaded before it can continue accessing the boot device). Going in

Hi all, I try to boot an msdos system using pxelinux and memdisk on my PC engines Wrap-2.c card and I have problems with it This is what I see: PXELINUX 3.11 Debian-2006-03-16 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter A boot: msdos Loading memdisk.... Loading images/msdos/msd622bd.dosim......................... Ready. dp83815: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. MEMDISK 3.11

Can I boot to memdisk using loadlin.exe? I saw that there were references to loadlin in the memdisk init.S (at least in the 2.04 version) so I thought it would be possible. If there's some resource that I can refer to I'd love to know that. DR-DOS 7.02 loadlin.exe 1.6c Sorry if this is a FAQ, I looked through the digest some before I joined this list, but I didn't see anything there

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

Hi, I am trying to load an disk image as Floppy=1, og B: using ISOLINUX. My Config file reads: ------- Begining Of File ------- KERNEL MEMDISK APPEND raw floppy=1 initrd=CERC6.IMG ------- End Of File ------------ --- MEMDISK Output Snip ------ Ramdisk at 0x03b58000, length 0x00168000 command line: initrd=CERC6.IMG raw floppy=1 BOOT_IMAGE=MEMDISK Disk is hard disk, 1440 K, C/H/S =

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

Hi, I would like to boot a LINUX system from an external USB Hard Drive. Motherboard (ASUS P4P800) supports boot from USB with or without floppy emulation. Is it possible to use syslinux for booting without any floppy or CD, just from the external USB drive? Regards... Bela

I have a somewhat unique problem I am trying to solve that requires me to temporarily replace the first 63s of the main hard drive and boot the result. Basically, I am hoping it is possible to modify memdisk to serve requests for the first 63 sectors from a ram disk and pass other requests through to the hard drive. There will never be a read spanning the two, so I don't need it to be able to

Is it possible to configure syslinux.cfg on a floppy to start Win98 on a secondary hard drive? If so, how is this done? Currently I have Linux and Win98 on the primary hard drive, and when I attempt to use the floppy to start Win98 on the second hard drive, I simply start Win98 on the first drive. I have tried many different approaches, all to no avail, and I would really appreciate some

Hallo I would like to have an image of about 8Mb to boot with ISOLINUX and MEMDISK. I am not able to create an image complete of the MBR, as MEMDISK requires. I think I should emulate an 8Mb disk in memory or on a file, but I am able to do so only for a 'single partition'. Could you please suggest me a way to obtain the image? I can use Linux or Windows tools, it does not matter.

Hi all, I have just released Syslinux 3.83. Special thanks to my employer, Intel, for letting me spend time on this. It is somewhat of a meager release despite four months, as most of the work has gone into the future-work branches. -hpa Changes in 3.83: * PXELINUX: clear memory before handing over to a chainloaded NBP. This may help avoid a bug in Windows RIS. *

[Redirecting to the syslinux mailing list.] anutma at cmsd.bc.ca wrote: > First of all THANKYOU! > I am a tech at Coast Mountains School District, we have 6 techs and close to > 3000 computers. We have need using Neboot, and have recently switched to grub > using nbgrub. With Memdisk, life has been great (well easier) > What I am trying to do is create a small windows 9x

hi, i've seen that there already have been some messages to bios flash via memdisk image. i also had some problem with that. the programmer of "UNIFLASH" told me, that memdisk is using protected mode and this should be a problem, because uniflash only works with real mode. i've found i amiflash that works with protected mode and with this i can flash the bios. [with memdisk]

Hi, I was wondering what's the best standard file extension for zipped DOS disk images and ramdisks. I've been using the following standard: .zi kernels, memtest86, memdisk .igz .img.gz zipped floppy images and ramdisks I'd rather have a different extension for ramdisks, maybe .zim zipped floppy images .zrd zipped ramdisks Any ideas ? It would also be nice if syslinux

Is it possible to have memdisk emulate multiple drives? Here's why I'm asking: I have a Dell server that I replaced the motherboard. I want to reset the service tag to the correct tag for the system, and the only way to do that is to run a Dell tool under DOS. I have downloaded the tool, but it is doubly-wrapped: a self-extracting ZIP file (which I unzipped under Linux) which contains a

Can anyone please tell me how to create a bootable 10MB hard disk image for use with memdisk? I'd like to use FreeDOS. And I know little of DOS. Thanks.