Hello,
We are having problems booting disk images and are looking for a little
help.
Here is the screen capture of what we see:
http://www.kmaclub.com/syslinux/largefloppy.png
We have also tried using images from
http://severinterrier.free.fr/Boot/ImgBoot/ with a similar result.
Basically, memdisk loads the images and then it hangs.
label linux
kernel memdisk
append initrd=newfloppy.ima floppy c=5 s=32 h=64
Any thoughts? What other kind of information would be helpful in
debugging this issue?
Michael
This may be a dumb question... But why are you trying to use GRUB and Memdisk? Or is memdisk failing and your computer is attempting to boot from another device? Basically (feel free to correct me) memdisk is used to boot MSDOS-formatted floppy images. If you're image has GRUB, then there's really no reason to use the disk image to control the boot since SYSLinux is a boot loader unto itself. On 6/14/06, Michael Blandford <mlblandf at sedona.ch.intel.com> wrote:> > Hello, > > We are having problems booting disk images and are looking for a little > help. > > Here is the screen capture of what we see: > http://www.kmaclub.com/syslinux/largefloppy.png > > We have also tried using images from > http://severinterrier.free.fr/Boot/ImgBoot/ with a similar result. > > Basically, memdisk loads the images and then it hangs. > > label linux > > kernel memdisk > > append initrd=newfloppy.ima floppy c=5 s=32 h=64 > > > Any thoughts? What other kind of information would be helpful in > debugging this issue? > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >-- Hunter Cobbs
On 6/14/06, Michael Blandford <mlblandf at sedona.ch.intel.com> wrote:> Hello, > > We are having problems booting disk images and are looking for a little > help. > > Here is the screen capture of what we see: > http://www.kmaclub.com/syslinux/largefloppy.png > > We have also tried using images from > http://severinterrier.free.fr/Boot/ImgBoot/ with a similar result. > > Basically, memdisk loads the images and then it hangs. > > label linux > > kernel memdisk > > append initrd=newfloppy.ima floppy c=5 s=32 h=64 > > > Any thoughts? What other kind of information would be helpful in > debugging this issue? > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > SYSLINUX mailing list > Submissions to SYSLINUX at zytor.com > Unsubscribe or set options at: > http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux > Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic. > >Uhm, am I missing something, or are you specifying harddrive geometry for a floppy image? It should be either harddrive or floppy. With a floppy you don't specify anything (in fact, if it's a standard sized image, say 1.44MB, then you don't even have to say floppy, but, some of the better imaging things will remove the blank space so you'll have to specify floppy for those.) With a harddrive image, you actually shouldn't have to specify the information since it's supposed to be able to get it from the partition table. In the syslinux archive, there is a "memdisk.doc" file in the memdisk folder which will give you more information regarding memdisk's functionality. Anyway, I say try it without any geometry specified and see what happens.