similar to: Freedos mount/boot Linux ISO's

Hello, I seemed to have encountered a problem with memdisk that I have seen before when I was playing around with USB device booting at one time. Here's the scenario: Take fx a image of a PC DOS bootable diskette. Boot the image via memdisk. This should boot fine if you use the built-in motherboard ide controllers (ide0,ide1). Now install a PCI IDE controller and put one IDE disk on the

Hi, is there an easy way to circumvent the SYSLINUX novice protection thing? intended users don't know about CTRL key to circumvent it. I'm trying to make a generic bootdisk for systems of 8086 - Pentium4. however the bootdisk is slow, so I'd like to use Syslinux + Memdisk to load a diskette image. then the text displayed to user will be: 1) FreeDOS bootdisk (accelerated, 386

Sorry for the delay, I should not send email on an holiday week-end. I'll try to answer all the questions by explaining what does work for me right now, and what I'd like to do. I have a script to create the a USB stick or an ISO image. The boot media contains many DOS images, and I use versamenu to select one of them. If my DOS image is smaller than 8megs, everything is working fine as

Hi, I did found the problem, a combination of 2 factor. 1- I taught that I did install the latest syslinux, but in fact it was the 3.36 version. 2- Thank to kevin Connelly, he point me to a problem he got with mkdosfs command. The default FAT16 do not work, but the FAT12 do. By adding -F12 to the mkdosfs command fix the problem. The default F16 do seem to work for <8M floppy image. Thank you

Mr Anvin, is there a specific loading address used with the Syslinux bootsector (to load ldlinux.sys)? like msdos 0x70, freedos 0x60 we're trying to have a SYS program that can create bootsector for other OS's than FreeDOS only. not much luck though :( this way I'm trying to avoid the use of syslinux.exe/com (need the diskspace that it would save by not including this program) I

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

Hello, there is a "fdboot.img" floppy drive image included with FreeDOS ISO file. It's a floppy image file: root at debian64:~# file -s /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img /home/martin/FreeDOS/isolinux/fdboot.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS BEta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x40, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes

Hi, I'd like to create a bootable CD to run Ghost. Before generating the .iso, I tested it on a system with a FAT partition and had syslinux-4.05 installed. However it failed. Here are the steps : 1. copied "memdisk" to the FAT partition. 2. as my copy of Ghost (v11.50 from solution suite v2.5) no longer fits on a single floppy, I created a "large" floppy image of size

I've got $SUBJ almost working except for the DOS bit where the CD needs to be read. My pxe config: label Firmware menu label Update IPMI firmware kernel memdisk append keeppxe raw iso initrd=<isofile> The ISO is about 400Mb, and works fine when I boot it from an actual CDROM drive. It also boots fine over PXE, I can see FreeDOS being booted up etc. The problem is - once

_ Vbox 4.2.18 VM booted with FreeDOS floppy, kernel 2041, no config.sys, no autoexec.bat, no TSR's, no memory managers. _ The booting floppy includes syslinux.com 6.02. _ Two HDD images attached to the VM, MBR + 1 FAT16 formatted partition each. Executing syslinux.com -i c: (or "d:") results in the following error: "Invalid Opcode at AD04 5080 0206 5080 2021 3666 FFFD 0083

Hi Maybe HPA or Murali could help me with this one, or anyone who got the following working. I spend numerous hours reading the list and googling without success. I'd like to create a bootable USB stick and CDROM that will do the following. I will have a menu, from which I could pick a specific dos image (not partition). The dos images could have up to 20Megs in size. The goal is to have

Hi all, I'm going to create an USB flash disk. Here's the partition structure. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 537911 268955+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 537912 1598793 530441 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sdb1 I used for installing boot loader(syslinux) and other small standalone utilities. /dev/sdb2 is used for

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" > > parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS > > variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if > > I'm wrong). > > This sounds like either a bug in

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote: > Testing the DOS-based Syslinux installer, syslinux.com, with the "-m" > parameter, I found that it works as expected under MS-DOS and its DOS > variants, but it seems to fail under FreeDOS (please correct me if > I'm wrong). This sounds like either a bug in FreeDOS or another undesirable negative

MEMDISK included in the freshly released Syslinux v3.10 is unfortunately broken. v3.09 works properly. Scenario: Isolinux --> MEMDISK --> FDBOOT.IMG (FreeDOS 360KB diskette image). Then try to access drive B: , which normally is your first diskette drive with driveletter A:. However, in this case MEMDISK occupies A:, and real diskdrive becomes B: Bug: when accessing B:, you're asked

On 05/24/2014 01:58 PM, Ady wrote: > > My guess is that if this was a bug in FreeDOS (as in "something" that > has nothing to do with the syslinux.com command) then it would be > somehow triggered by other DOS programs trying to write to the MBR. > Considering that there are several (open source) DOS programs that > are capable of successfully writing to the MBR

HPA, is it possible to add a parameter/argument to syslinux.com/syslinux.exe to specify a file? currently it's something like SYSLINUX A: I'd like the following also to be possible: SYSLINUX A: A:\SYSLINUX.BIN It still copies LDLINUX.BIN to A:, but writes the generated bootsector intended for drive A: to a 512byte user-specified file Perhaps to allow both at the same time even SYSLINUX

a member of the FreeDOS project has transformed Smart Boot Manager into a COM32 module for Syslinux. Might be a bit more usefull than Syslinux -> memdisk -> imagefile -> Smart Boot Manager ( -> 'boot from cd -> cdrom ) I've inserted it into this diskette image: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta9sr1/fdos1440.img That's nice to

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:22 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2014 01:58 PM, Ady wrote: > > > > My guess is that if this was a bug in FreeDOS (as in "something" that > > has nothing to do with the syslinux.com command) then it would be > > somehow triggered by other DOS programs trying to write to the MBR. > > Considering

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