Syslinux - Aug 2005 - booting from MS-dos disk.

Hi there,
              I am using memdisk with pxelinux, i have created ms-dos boot 
disk from windows xp, but when i boot from it stops on starting....
            what is the problem can anybody tell me..

Regards,
Yogesh

Dinesh P. wrote:
> Hi there,
>              I am using memdisk with pxelinux, i have created ms-dos 
> boot disk from windows xp, but when i boot from it stops on starting....
>            what is the problem can anybody tell me..
>
> Regards,
> Yogesh
Windows XP's DOS boot disk will not work with memdisk. If I remember 
correctly, it does not use BIOS to access the contents of the floppy 
drive so memdisk is circumvented. You need an earlier version of DOS 
boot disk. Win 98/Win ME or just plain DOS or FreeDOS.

- Murali

Hi, there
            Well i am currently using DOS 6.22 bootdisk for booting from 
memdisk with network drivers for connecting windows share on network, so i 
want to know that is it possible to break dos 640k memory limition using 
WinXp DOS boot disk with network drivers. please tell me if it is possible.

Regards,
Yogesh Patil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernd Blaauw" <bblaauw at home.nl>
To: "Dinesh P." <globalyogesh at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] booting from MS-dos disk.

> Dinesh P. schreef:
>> Hi there,
>>              I am using memdisk with pxelinux, i have created ms-dos
boot
>> disk from windows xp, but when i boot from it stops on starting....
>>            what is the problem can anybody tell me..
>>
>
> please read Syslinux and Memdisk documentation, which tell you to add 
> 'raw' parameter. The diskette image that WinXP creates uses a
Windows
> Millennium kernel. Either the kernel or the bootsector used on it break 
> booting through Memdisk on purpose somehow.
>
> I'll try to test if it's only the bootsector, as
> http://fdos.org/AutoIndex/index?dir=kernel/&file=SYS.dev.COM
>
> is able to write a diskette bootsector for WinME.
> create the WinXP/ME bootdisk, then:
> SYS.COM A: A: /BOOTONLY
>
> if the image works with Memdisk, then it's bootsector to blame.
> otherwise kernel, in which case you'd better use a Win98 image from 
> bootdisk.com or so (provided you have a license for it, ofcourse :) )
>
> Bernd
>