Does anyone know if the ABIOSDSK service in XP would "find" and a HDD
image pushed to ram by MEMDISK??
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Nope, windows needs a miniport driver to access the boot volume. ABIOSDSK looks at the bios information, which strictly speaking syslinux doesn't affect. On 3/8/08 7:04 AM, "sandin" <deiloohay at yahoo.com> wrote:> Does anyone know if the ABIOSDSK service in XP would "find" and a HDD image > pushed to ram by MEMDISK?? > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > 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. >
I tried setting the ABIOSDSK service to 0 (Boot) and loaded a 550mb image of a hard disk into ram using isolinux + memdisk. It blue screened with the 0x7B (inaccessible boot device). Is it possible that using pxelinux would yeild a different result? ----- Original Message ---- From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:11:42 PM Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK Jacob Alifrangis wrote:> Nope, windows needs a miniport driver to access the boot volume. > > ABIOSDSK looks at the bios information, which strictly speaking syslinux > doesn't affect.Well, MEMDISK does install a BIOS hook for the memory disk, so it might work. I would be very interested in knowing. -hpa _______________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
There was only a CD-ROM... ----- Original Message ---- From: Jacob Alifrangis <jalifrangis at authenticlick.net> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 8:53:19 PM Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK If there's a harddisk in the machine, try using 1 on the abiosdsk service. On 3/17/08 5:40 PM, "sandin" <deiloohay at yahoo.com> wrote:> I tried setting the ABIOSDSK service to 0 (Boot) and loaded a 550mb image of a > hard disk into ram using isolinux + memdisk. It blue screened with the 0x7B > (inaccessible boot device). Is it possible that using pxelinux would yeild a > different result? > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> > To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:11:42 PM > Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK > > Jacob Alifrangis wrote: >> Nope, windows needs a miniport driver to access the boot volume. >> >> ABIOSDSK looks at the bios information, which strictly speaking syslinux >> doesn't affect. > > Well, MEMDISK does install a BIOS hook for the memory disk, so it might > work. I would be very interested in knowing. > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________________ > ______ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping > _______________________________________________ > 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. >_______________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
How could I determine where syslinux is storing the image? ----- Original Message ---- From: Jacob Alifrangis <jalifrangis at authenticlick.net> To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:48:34 AM Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK I bet..... That microsoft is clearing the memory regions that the disk is occupying before starting, there are some kernel parameters in the boot.ini that can exclude memory regions, look it up in msdn, there's a /exclude= parameter, that you can pass during the early boot process. What I would suggest is to find out where syslinux is storing the image, and lockout that region. Might be worth a shot. On 3/19/08 5:50 AM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:> sandin wrote: >> I tried setting the ABIOSDSK service to 0 (Boot) and loaded a 550mb image of >> a hard disk into ram using isolinux + memdisk. It blue screened with the >> 0x7B (inaccessible boot device). Is it possible that using pxelinux would >> yeild a different result? > > Shouldn't make any difference. > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > 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. >_______________________________________________ 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. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping