[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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