similar to: Modify memdisk to mask/overlay start of hard drive

[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 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 =

Has anybody tried to boot a dos disk via memdisk with a usb flash device as a primary hard drive? I have a 512MB flash key that when connected becomes my primary hard drive (new bios) - 0x80. If I boot a MS-DOS 7.10 floppy, one gets the command prompt and I can see the contents of my flash key as drive C:. But, if I make a image of the floppy and boot the image via memdisk, then memdisk

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.

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.

hello and thanks for reading this, i am doing a volunteer project for a school in harlem,ny. they have had donated 30 nics computers from thinknic.com. it can pxe boot. it had a cdrom and it has no hard drive. i am looking for ways to boot windows98 on these machines. i read on some site that memdisk can be used on legacy os. before i spend days testing it out, is it possible to boot windows98

Good day Gert Hulselmans, You had reported to me at one point that MEMDISK -> .ISO -> ISOLINUX had failed under certain circumstances. I just noticed with a MEMDISK 3.86 that specifying the "iso" option on the command-line actually resulted in the .ISO getting BIOS drive number 0xFF. I had to specify "iso harddisk=224 pause" to confirm that it resulted in 0xE0 (hd96).

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

Sensei H. Peter Anvin, I have successfully modified/enhanced memdisk so that one can chainload a local operating system after running diskless FreeDOS. I would like your advice regarding the appropriate interface for invoking this functionality. In addition, I would like to know what steps to take so that you feel comfortable considering including this in the standard syslinux distribution.

Hi, I've been using Isolinux Boot CD for a while now and it's working great. This weekend, I decided to install it on my hard drive so I can boot Isolinux of the Hard drive. I used the famous command : "syslinux -s c:" to initialize the drive then I copied all the .img file to that drive. Then I renamed the "isolinux.cfg" to "syslinux.cfg" to get to my

Sorry for the cross-post, but I do not know whether this is a bug in Free FDISK, memdisk, or neither. This problem is with Free FDISK 1.2.1 and memdisk 2.04. I am using PXELINUX+memdisk to boot to a virtual hard drive containing MS-DOS 6.22. This works fine; DOS boots and the virtual drive appears as C:. Now I want to use Free FDISK to partition the *physical* drive. But when I run any of the

I have been trying to find the information by searching through the archives and google, so I am sorry if this question has been asked before I just have not been able to find an answer. I have a syslinux boot floppy which loads to the boot prompt, I wish to load a .gz image which is on my hd0 0 by using memdisk as the kernel. I have tried to kernel memdisk append root=/dev/hd0 0 (also just

Hi, It is becoming a bad habit for big OEM vendors to sell computers & servers without floppy drives. Unfortunatly both Windows and Linux (RedHat) need a floppy drive to load storage drivers etc. during installation. This is what I was thinking: Use ISOLINUX and MEMDISK to load a floppy image of a driver disk into memory as a viritual floppy drive "A:"/"/dev/fda" And then

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

After upgrading to 2.31 I'm getting this error. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. No (No signatures could be verified because the chain contains only one certificate and it is not self signed.) ssl = yes ssl_cert = </etc/exim/certs/ctyme.com.crt ssl_key = </etc/exim/certs/ctyme.com.key ssl_ca = </etc/exim/certs/ca.crt local mail.ctyme.com { ? protocol imap { ??? ssl_cert =

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

Hi all, I have pushed out a SYSLINUX 3.32-pre4. This version attempts to work around the "missing floppy drive" issue. If you have systems on which MEMDISK doesn't work without a floppy drive, I would appreciate it if you would test this out. -hpa

Hello, I am trying to make a usb stick full of utilities. However some of the utilities do not use syslinux, and are iso's. Is there any method available for turning the iso into a bootable drive img to be used with memdisk? -- Dimeneira aka Dime

Hi! I have problems to boot with memdisk and pxe the hard drive tests from seagate, hitachi, western digital... does has someone done it and can sym me how? (maxtor works perfectly) ByE

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