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Does someone know where I could get my hands on an ima that's larger than 2.88meg... I use winimage for all my ima's and stuff but i'm having trouble configuring a custom size. If anyone has a large ima I could utilize that would be great, preferably one fitting this memdisk supported size: 3,932,160 bytes (3840K) c=80 h=2 s=48 3.5" DSED (extended) If not instructions on making

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 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

I have periodically been trying to get memdisk to boot images larger than your average 1.44Mb floppy and have always been unsuccessful. I cannot boot anything greater than 1.44Mb. The systems I'm attempting to do this with are not too old but they are not recent either. One is a Asus P5A and the other is a Intel SE440BX both with the most recent bios firmware patches available applied. If

Hello all, I've been following this project with interest, and have had great fun implementing Isolinux within the FreeDOS cdrom distribution. Since I'm not that an expert at Linux, I would like to know how I can *succesfully* generate a bootable image from a partition. Situation is like this: (640MB RAM on system) 60GB IDE harddisk, primary partition 1 win98 500MB extended partition

>that image under B: or X: or whatever. This will allow us to cross the >size limit of 2.88MB floppies. Ofcourse when I say "mount" I dont expect >memdisk to mount it, just that set things up so that DOS mounts it there. I'm using a 5MB image which emulates floppydisk. label test kernel data/memdisk append initrd=data2/test.img c=80 h=8 s=18 floppy problems are

Hi, I'm sorry to bring this up again but I can't quit get this too work. I'm trying to build a 2.88 floppy image so that I can use PXE to load Ghost. I'm useing the following to get a copy of the bootsector: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootblock bs=512 count=1 Then I build the image file with: mformat -C -t 160 -s 18 -h 2 -B bootblock x: Then use mcopy to put the required

On Wed 5/5/2010 3:28 AM Miller, Shao wrote, ---------------------------------------------- Good day again Matthew, As per (c=80) * (h=2) * (s=48) * (sect_size=512) = 3,932,160 bytes = 7,680 sectors: For Windows, you might enjoy: - "DD for Windows" by John Newbigin and chrysocome[1] - "ImDisk Virtual Disk Driver" and "Zero and Random Device Driver" by Olof

On 07/15/2014 06:57 PM, Ady wrote: > > Finally, when using MEMDISK to boot floppy images, these images > should not use partial "cylinders". In other words, use exact CHS > values for floppy images, instead of building the images by means of > the desired megabytes size. Then use the selected CHS values as > parameters for MEMDISK. > If you have a proper set

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

Dear Syslinux folks, For a firmware update I am following the Gentoo Wiki [1] to create a floppy image of 20 MB, so that the vendor update utility fits. Unfortunately, FreeDOS does not load, and it seems to hang loading the FreeDOS kernel. The original FreeDOS image boots. Do you know if that issue is memdisk related? It?s started from GRUB with the commands below. linux16 /boot/memdisk

Hello, I am using syslinux 3.63 and I am trying to get an image file going for ghost. I was able to get the unicast image working by using winimage and creating the format for the image as 2.88mb and saving the boot sector as win 95/98. I tried the same thing with a ghost multicast image and it doesn't work, says invalid system disk.. Lots are variables so I am not sure where

Like a lot of people, I am using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make a technician universal boot disk on a USB key (I have done the same with ISOLINUX and MEMDISK for a CD using Bart's method for bootable CDs) I *LOVE* Syslinux and MEMDISK, and what I can do with floppy images! I have a few problems that have cropped up, most notably the DOCMEMORY program (www.simmstester.com) boots fing, but the

Hello, I am a *nix newbie I am trying to boot a DOS boot disk using PXE (to Ghost on windows images). We have an existing PXE server which successfully serves out PXElinux and Fedora builds based on that but my floppy disk image with memdisk isn't working I have tried a few different floppy images which people have posted as ones that work for them but I doubt the disk is the problem

I search for long time to make works ghost floppy image "out of the box" with syslinux without success. The only solution i found is to modify the the file generated by ghost boot wizard. the ghost boot wizard generate a "file.sys" i made (with the help of irc helper) a script to modify this file : you have to put the file.sys without extension as parameter #!/bin/bash

Hi, I'm trying to use pxelinux+memdisk to boot to dos. And using dos tcp/ip connect to windows network. I've used winimage to create (dos.ima) image of dos bootable floppy. But when I type dos at boot: prompt, it doesn't boot to dos instead show a multi-coloured screen. At this moment ctrl+alt+delete also doesn't work. Pls help Jitender

On 07/08/2014 05:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/08/2014 03:05 PM, Alexander Perlis wrote: >> >> Question: what's special about the transition from 8203KiB to 8204KiB? >> Both have CHS=8/64/32 and both involve a fractional end cylinder. > > Fractional cylinders with floppy disks is almost certainly a very bad thing. > Agreed, but that doesn't appear to

In other words: I'm suggesting to use WinImage as it also allows easy injection of new files *and* updating of already existing files. May I ask which vendor is distributing a DOS FW update that is 20MB? I'd like to see the files. Sometimes you just need the .bin/.rom and the actual FW update EXE and it would fit a 5MB FDD image. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 2:03 PM, R S <rene.shuster at

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.

Has anyone had a problem with afud408 (Award flash program) freezing the system when ran from memdisk? The freeze occurs when just running afud408 (not attempting to update bios, although it freezes then as well.) I was using pxelinux/memdisk 3.36, I upgrade to 3.51, and also fell back to 2.11 all have the same issue. I have tried all the switches for memdisk that I saw posted on the memdisk