similar to: how to create bootable FreeDOS HDD or USB flash drive?

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

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

hm, nice algorythm thingie. I'm not a programmer, so here goes: currently: F1 helpfile.txt probably results in DISPLAY helpfile.txt perhaps extend this option: F1 arg1 arg2 arg3 argX if arg1 does not exist, abort (currently also done?) if arg1 ends in COM extension, execute it and pass the optional arg2/3/X parameters if arg1 ends in C32 extension, same thing. else DISPLAY arg1 // arg1

> On 08Jul2014--09Jul2014, Ady, Peter Anvin, Gene Cumm, Bernd Blaauw, Shao > Miller, Kenneth Davis, wrote: > > [...] > > Thank you all for your responses. You helped me solve my problem. For > anyone else that runs into similar trouble and finds this thread, here > follow summaries of what I've learned. > > To recap, our PXE server holds Dell BIOS updates in

On 08Jul2014--09Jul2014, Ady, Peter Anvin, Gene Cumm, Bernd Blaauw, Shao Miller, Kenneth Davis, wrote: > [...] Thank you all for your responses. You helped me solve my problem. For anyone else that runs into similar trouble and finds this thread, here follow summaries of what I've learned. To recap, our PXE server holds Dell BIOS updates in FreeDOS floppy images booted via MEMDISK.

I don't think that's it, but fair enough, try this sample config: ************************************************# Test File: isolinux.cfg default vesamenu.c32 ALLOWOPTIONS 0 LABEL Test kernel whichsys.c32 append -iso- memdisk initrd=fdboot.img -sys- initrd=fdboot.img MENU END************************************************ I am using binaries from 6.03-pre11 from kernel.org. I used

Apologies for how that formatted. Also on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/EXSq75yX --Ian > From: ian at internals.io > To: ady-sf at hotmail.com; syslinux at zytor.com > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:09:09 -0500 > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Issues with syslinux_run_command(str) and parameters > > I don't think that's it, but fair enough, try this sample config: >

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

Hello HPA, I think on harddisks, Syslinux is going to lose somehow from other bootloaders like LILO, Grub and others. However, SYSLINUX is still VERY usefull for removable media like diskettes, Zipdisks, USB Flash keys, etc.. I don't know if the fact that Syslinux is now installed using blockmapping is really breaking the usefullness for harddisks. You already mentioned system attribute

Is there something special about filesystems mounted via the loop device, which prevents Samba from sharing them? I have a small LAN with several PCs on it. It has a few Windows machines, and a Linux machine running Mandrake 10 (kernel 2.6.3), which shares out its root ("/") read-only as "c". (Temporarily, for testing, it is shared with full write permissions, which I know

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

Hello: I read the archive posting for September 2005, http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-September/005809.html, where you stated that you have a freedos diskette that allows you to download and run an iso like it was a cd in a drive. I am in need of the ability to have a freedos bootable cd that contains other Linux ISO's that I could mount and boot to. In your experience with

Hi folks, Does anyone know how to install the OCI8 ruby interface on Debian64 without having to install Oracle? My understanding, from experience with Debian i386, is that you need Oracle (specifically the SQLPlus) installed to be able to compile OCI8. Since my new dev machine is AMD64 running Debian, I''m stuck. My rails applications need to connect to a remote Oracle 10g, but cannot

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

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

I am using FreeDOS kernel 2.0.34 with FAT32 support (ke2034_32), together with PXELINUX and memdisk from SYSLINUX 2.0.9-pre15. I am experiencing this problem on multiple test systems (Dell Precision 450 and IBM T22 so far). My pxelinux.cfg/default has these lines: label test kernel memdisk append initrd=test.img keeppxe ...which let me boot my 1.44M "test.img"