[syslinux] Re: Problem with memdisk and Free FDISK

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jul 7 11:47:08 PDT 2003


Brian E. Reifsnyder wrote:
> 
>>  2) This appears to be some sort of bug with INT13 extensions.  Is it
>>     most likely a bug in fdisk, memdisk, or my BIOS?  Just curious.
> 
> My first thought would be that it is in memdisk.  But, I am not familiar
> with PXELINUX.  My guess, from your description, is that you are attempting
> to run Free FDISK from within an emulated DOS machine (DOS Emu?  Bochs?).
> 

To me, it sounds like whatever Free FDISK is doing to try to detect the 
existence of the INT 13h extensions is incompatible with MEMDISK.  I 
have no idea what it does, so I can't say if this is a MEMDISK or Free 
FDISK problem.  DOS 7.10 (Win98) doesn't seem to have this problem.

	-hpa




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