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Hi, I'm trying to boot Feature Tool 2.08 (free download from http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm) from a pen drive via memdisk. QEMU can boot the pen drive all right, my ThinkPad can't: Loading ftool208.img.........................ready. MEMDISK 3.53 2007-11-17 Copyright 2001-2007 H. Peter Anvin e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009f000 1 e820: 000000000009f000

I tried to use memdisk 2.06 to boot a floppy image on my notebook which doesn't have a floppy drive. The boot failed, because the bootstrap code tried to reset the floppy drive (int13, ah=00). Memdisk passes reset calls on to the original int13 handler, which returns failure, because there is no floppy drive to reset (#1). Also i noted that some boot records (notably some created by

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 there. I'm trying to boot several OSes floppy images from a cdrom via memdisk. Actually, Linux and FreeBSD boots fine, but, while i'm using the same method, I couldn't get into booting netbsd nor openbsd. The boot process seems to hang up, in those two cases, when the second stage native bootloader try to load the kernel (i'm not absolutely sure about this). The native first

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

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

Hi, I stumbled on a rather odd problem. A brand new HP Compaq dx2200 computer didn't want to boot up pxelinux+memdisk image. The computer just gave "Disk I/O error" and stopped there. Workaround was rather simple... Just attach regular floppy drive to the motherboard and everything started working fine. I tried with older 2.05 (pxelinux+memdisk) and newer 3.31. Both produced

I am trying to acheve pxe booting of a image of barts boot disk (www.nu2.nu). I have managed to get LTSP booting via pxelinux, so I know my dhcp/tftp servers are ok. However when I try to boot memdisk with either a stock suselinux boot image file (taken from SuSE 9.1) or my dos disk (created by dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/imagefile) I get output like MEMDISK 2.08 command line : BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk

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, just tried memdisk - it works, even with token-ring network cards! I've some problems with dos 6.22 on one machine, though. This one doesn't have a floppy controller (e.g. linux reports that it didn't find any controller). The Dos 6.22 boot disk is loaded, then the boot sector is started and tells me that it can't load the system (German message: 'Kein System oder

Hi We have a couple of FSC Computers here which seem to have a very strange bios. I am trying to boot a MS-DOS disk to flash an Scsi Raid controller. Since the computer doesn't have a floppy anymore I tried syslinux from an usb stick. The menu loads fine but I cannot boot disc images with memdisk on this computer. It works fine on others, of course. But now comes the weird part, if I use the

I have been using pxelinux for quite a while to automagically build linux boxes with great success. Thanks to everyone involved! Now, I am trying to download a floppy image and get that to boot. My conf file looks like: default sir4 label sir4 kernel ia32/memdisk append initrd=ia32/sir4/floppy.img Everything starts off fine. pxelinux loads I see it get the conf file. gets 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

My system is hanging up when attempting to boot a bootable floppy disk image Does the following info tell any story as to what's happening? Thanks. LABEL dosdiskimage KERNEL memdisk APPEND keeppxe initrd=dos.img floppy Loading dos.img ............. Ready. MEMDISK 3.11 2005-09-02 e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009fc00 1 e820: 000000000009fc00 0000000000000400 2 e820: 00000000000e0000

For the boot floppy at http://superkeen.com/peacecorpsfiles/FUZOMA14.IMG using memdisk from syslinux version 3.72 boots correctly, but for memdisk versions newer than 3.72 (I tested 3.73, 3.75, 3.85, and 3.86) all hang at boot with the following message: Loading boot sector... booting FreeDOS kernel - SVN (build 2039 OEM:0xfd [compiled Oct 2 2009]) Kernel compatibility 6.22 - BORLANDC ... XMGR,

Im trying to boot memtest86 via pxelinux, memdisk, I found this advice on http://forum.x86-secret.com/viewtopic.php?t=2906 folks are making the image match a floppy size by one of the following: dd if=memtest86+-1.xx.bin of=memtest.img bs=360k count=1 conv=sync or dd bs=360k count=1 conv=sync if=memtest86+-1.xx.bin|gzip > memtest.gz I did the former, it did suppress the warning/errors I saw

memdisk fails to boot HD image, if the system does not have an HD. Has any seen this? Is there a solution? memdisk output: Disk is hard disk, 9216 K, C/H/S = 9/64/32 Total size needed = 2063 bytes, allocating 3K Old dos memory at 0x9dc00 (map says 0x9dc00), loading at 0x9d000 INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only driveold: int13 = f000799a int15 = f000f859 new: int13 = 9d000008 int15

This isn't an esp urgent issue, but I'd like to use a certain RAM diagnostic (Doc Mem) which I've already posted a note about a couple of months ago. Simply won't work booting the floppy disk image via MEMDISK. In the interim, I've tried to resolve this by changing things on my side. I'm pretty sure it's a XMS incompatibility, as it fails differently depending on

Peter: Just wanted to report yet another happy customer for ISOLINUX. Have been using it successfully for several months as the loader/menu for my bootable CD/DVD projects. ISOLINUX isn't nearly as quirky as GRUB and given the latest improvement on the documentation front, I even have the graphical splssh+menu I looked to GRUB for. Thank you very much. I have one observation and

Hi guys, I'm trying boot a floppy basead netbootdisk solution ( http://www.netbootdisk.com/) using grub and memdisk. This is a Floppy 1.44 Mb with TCP/IP and Ethernet Drivers for DOS. This image doesn't has a command.com. This file is unzipped on boot. Using a floppy, the machine boots, but when I trying to use a image from floppy which memdisk, the boots hangs. The image can found at