Syslinux - Jun 2004 - mkdiskimage question (another one?)

Hi,

I am trying for quite some time to create a bootable hd disk
image with mkdiskimage (included in the syslinux distribution)
and the combination isolinux/memdisk. It just won't work:-}

I have done the following:

[snip]
# ./mkdiskimage -d -o disk 256 32 1
640
# losetup -o 640 /dev/loop3 disk
# mount /dev/loop3 /mnt/3
# mount | grep loop3
/dev/loop3 on /mnt/3 type vfat (rw)

:: copy win98se boot disk files to /mnt/3 ::

[snap]

My isolinux entry looks like the following:
[snip]
LABEL 98
KERNEL /isolinux/memdisk
APPEND initrd=images/disk
TIMEOUT 100
[snap]

And that is the message i got from memdisk after booting.
"Loading boot sector... booting..."

And then it hangs forever:-(

Any ideas or howtos how i can make my disk bootable?

-timo

-- 
6832  C8EC        ------------------------------------        6FBF  9383
D823  4059    --== "reality is the illusion you live" ==--    7DBD 
109E
   0CD1           ------------------------------------           98DC

You might want to use Bochs emulator + a Win98 bootdisk.
Bochs can handle the harddisk image you create,
and transferring bootsector needs to be done in Bochs using the bootdisk image,
and thus you're working with DOS:
SYS A: C:

copying the kernel files is not enough, as you experienced.
Unfortunately not even FreeDOS has a Linux installer, so that's no use.
DOSEMU might also be usable instead of Bochs.

I can't say if the isolinux.cfg is OK, I'd need your directory structure
for that.
root
root\isolinux (isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, memdisk)

and some directory called "images" somewhere, with a file called
'disk'

Bernd


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