[syslinux] Proper way to boot memtest86
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Sep 20 16:34:52 PDT 2005
Nazo wrote:
>
> My impression from what you've said is that you've run into the rather
> painful annoying problem I've run into in the past. The file
> distributed on the main site is a floppy image with unused bits
> removed, causing things like memdisk to get upset or something along
> those lines. The easiest way I found to get it working in my case was
> to mount the disk image in something and extract the kernel image and
> initrd image, then boot those as a normal linux kernel would via
> syslinux. I think I read that if you specified certain exact commands
> on the command line you could get the disk image to work, but, it
> doesn't seem worth all the extra effort.
>
> (Sorry for the sort of "double post." I'm STILL not used to mailing lists...)
>
Well, there are several different memdisk images distributed. I think
the "bootable binary" is the one you need, and it needs to *not* be
named .bin.
-hpa
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