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[Oliver Schiff]

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> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of fabrice.maraval
> Sent: Donnerstag, 18. März 2004 08:38
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> 
> Hi
> I'm having a hard time in making a hard drive image which 
> will boot with memdisk. Any of my tries with disk creator 
> from bochs won't work with 100Mb hard drive image.I also 
> tried to make one using a real hard drive and winimage and it 
> didn't work. Is there a tutorial for making such images ? I 
> would like to make them under windows but i can also make 
> them under linux if needed. My goal is to boot an hard drive 
> image between 100Mb and 50Mb with memdisk. Thanks for your answer. FM.

Are you using partition images or harddisk images? You need images with a Master Boot Record (MBR) and a 32K offset to the actual partition. AFAIK WinImage can only handle the partition part.
BTW: Windows will usually not work in a RAM disk. I have seen Win95 running successfully, but that's tricky and probably not worth the effort.
DOS will run from large images without any trouble.

Oliver.