[syslinux] Re: Memdisk & tomsrtbt

[Tom Oehser]

Tomsrtbt is a floppy distribution.

The CD boot image is a 2.88MB floppy image.

It is unsupported by me to boot in other than
from its own LILO, by anything but an ElTorito
BIOS, directly.

-Tom

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Christopher Buckley wrote:

> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 10:03:46 -0800 (PST)
> From: Christopher Buckley <mallardproductions at yahoo.com>
> To: tom at toms.net, syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: Memdisk & tomsrtbt
>
> tom & peter
>
> Hi Guys, I have a little problem I'm hoping you can
> help me with.
>
> When I try to boot toms image, memdisk states a
> "fractional end sector" while loading the image. It
> continues with the process until I get a "Booting..."
> prompt and then freezes.
>
>
> Here's the whole story:
>
> A while back I acquired version tomsrtbt 2.0.103, to
> make a multi-image boot cd as described at:
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk
>
> I was able to create the CD and it works for my
> dos-6.22, win95, win98 images, but not toms.
>
> I have done as instructed:
>
> 1) download tomsrtbt 2.88 bz
>
> 2) unzip it and place it in \isolinux folder
>
> 3) create isolinux.cfg as:
>
>
> # ISOLINUX.CFG
> display boot_msg.txt
>
> # Keep your options above option labels
> default 1
> prompt 1
> timeout 200
>
> # List your boot choice instructions here
> label 1
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=tomsrtbt.img
> label 2
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=win_98.img
> label 3
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=win_95.img
> label 4
>     kernel memdisk
>     append initrd=dos_6_22.img
> label a
> 	localboot 0x00
> label h
> 	localboot 0x80
> label q
> 	localboot -1
>
> 4) Create the file system using mkisofs -b
> isolinux/isolinux.bin (etc as spec by peter)
>
> 5) burn the cd as data
>
>
> Got any suggestions/ideas? Is this my problem, or some
> thing between you two?
>
> Thanks
>
> Christopher
>
>
>
>
>
>
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