[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions?

[Matt Walsh]

> Correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't memdisk supposed to support using
> a harddisk image? 

It's supposed to but doesn't - at least with the current version - or at
least with the directions I've used.

I had the same issue as this most excellent person Giulio...
http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-February/004773.html

...and so I emailed him.  He said he went backwards till he found an old
version that works.  Voila, if you use MEMDISK 2.11, it works.  He told me
that he posted this to the list but got no response.

The old version hangs like this:

Ramdisk at 0x005df000, length 0x00a00080
command line: initrd=image.dsk harddisk c=10 h=64 s=32 BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk
MEMDISK: image has a fractional end sector
Disk is hard disk, 10240 K, C/H/S = 10/63/32
Total size needed = 1897 bytes, allocating 2K
Old dos memory at 0x9f800 (map says 0x9f800), loading at 0x9f000
1588: 0x137c 15E801: 0x137c 0x0000
INT 13 08: Success, count = 2, BPT = 0000:0000
old: int13 = eb8b3dc9   int15 =  f0005d34
new: int13 = 9f000008   int15 =  9f000286
Loading boot sector... booting...
<hangs here>

-mw