Syslinux - Apr 2004 - Memdisk

Memdisk 2.08 cannot boot an XP boot floppy image (XP appears to use WinME 
boot files for its bootable floppy).  For example:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm

This disk will not boot with Memdisk (Memdisk starts to load the image and 
then hangs).   I'm using Bart's tools to build a boot CD:

http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/

Which uses Isolinux and Memdisk.


==========================================================Bob Whitworth         
HST LAN Support
Goddard Space Flight Center             rwhitworth at hst.nasa.gov
MS 440.8 Building 3/Room 103          301-286-1968 voice
Greenbelt, Md 20771                         301-286-1689 fax

Bob Whitworth wrote:
> Memdisk 2.08 cannot boot an XP boot floppy image (XP appears to use
> WinME boot files for its bootable floppy).  For example:
> 
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm
> 
> This disk will not boot with Memdisk (Memdisk starts to load the image
> and then hangs).   I'm using Bart's tools to build a boot CD:
> 
> http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/
> 
> Which uses Isolinux and Memdisk.
> 
Known problem.

	-hpa

If you are building a boot CD, you should be able to get around using 
the XP CD boot sector and booting off the CD directly instead of using a 
floppy image.

- Murali

Bob Whitworth wrote:
> Memdisk 2.08 cannot boot an XP boot floppy image (XP appears to use 
> WinME boot files for its bootable floppy).  For example:
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm
>
> This disk will not boot with Memdisk (Memdisk starts to load the image 
> and then hangs).   I'm using Bart's tools to build a boot CD:
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/
>
> Which uses Isolinux and Memdisk.
>
>
> ==========================================================> Bob
Whitworth                                  HST LAN Support
> Goddard Space Flight Center             rwhitworth at hst.nasa.gov
> MS 440.8 Building 3/Room 103          301-286-1968 voice
> Greenbelt, Md 20771                         301-286-1689 fax
>
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