[syslinux] Hard disk image to use with Memdisk

[H. Peter Anvin]

Luigi Iotti wrote:
Hallo

I would like to have an image of about 8Mb to boot with ISOLINUX and
MEMDISK. I am not able to create an image complete of the MBR, as 
MEMDISK requires. I think I should emulate an 8Mb disk in memory or on a 
file, but I am able to do so only for a 'single partition'. Could you 
please suggest me a way to obtain the image? I can use Linux or Windows 
tools, it does not matter. Obviously I do not own a 8Mb Hard Disk, or it 
would be simple...

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Personally, I've used DOSEMU to generate hard disk images.  The one 
slight catch is that DOSEMU disks have a 128-byte header containing the 
geometry data that need to be stripped (maybe I should make MEMDISK 
support these images as-is...)

Another option which shouldn't be ignored is the "large floppy" option. 
  With a "large floppy" you don't need an MBR or partition table, but 
you have to tell the geometry to MEMDISK using the command-line options 
(use an "append" statement in the config file.)

	-hpa