[syslinux] Large Floppy Images

Steve Brown
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:34:12 -0000

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, (syslinux-emails) wrote:

>      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 anyone
> could provide links to GOOD known working images greater than 1.44Mb or
> help me to troubleshoot this it would be greatly appriciated.

Tom's Root Boot disk is a 1.77Meg floppy image, and for the ISO version,
he has created a 2.88Meg image of the same files.
http://www.toms.net/rb/


Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu