[syslinux] Pxelinux/memdisk with XP "MS-DOS" boot disk

[Dan Petersen]

At 04:58 PM 12/31/2003, you wrote:

>I looked a bit at it, and when run from memdisk it jumps off into 
>hyperspace pretty early on when run from MEMDISK.  However, it doesn't 
>seem to have anything to do with the calls to MEMDISK, so I'm pretty 
>puzzled by the whole thing.  Also, the kernel on that disk does some very 
>strange things early on.
>
>         -hpa

I had my doubts that this was a problem with MEMDISK, it's worked well for 
everything else so far.  Strange things are to be expected considering the 
source of the kernel :)

I will try to get that universal boot disk to work with FreeDOS, it's 
kernel is even smaller than the XP one.  I've got a feeling that all the 
extra drivers that get loaded during the later part of the boot process 
aren't going to behave though.  The main feature I want is the PCI network 
card auto-detection, it has detected and installed the right driver for 
every card I've tried so far.