[syslinux] memdisk fails to boot HD image, if the system does not have an HD

[Mikey Sklar]

I saw quite a bit of this on IBM HS20-8843 (required hardware
reprogramming) fixed in rev05 hardware and HS40 systems I needed to
leave the pxe images uncompressed all the time.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:37:44AM -0700, Egan Ford wrote:
> memdisk fails to boot HD image, if the system does not have an HD.
> 
> Has any seen this?  Is there a solution?
> 
> memdisk output:
> 
> Disk is hard disk, 9216 K, C/H/S = 9/64/32
> Total size needed = 2063 bytes, allocating 3K
> Old dos memory at 0x9dc00 (map says 0x9dc00), loading at 0x9d000
> INT 13 08: Failure, assuming this is the only driveold: int13 = f000799a
> int15 = f000f859
> new: int13 = 9d000008  int15 = 9d000286
> Loading boot sector... booting...
> 
> Non-System disk or disk error
> Replace and press any key when ready
> 
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