[syslinux] MEMDISK and Doc Memory
Duke McAllister
mr-roboto at linuxmail.org
Sun Feb 18 05:37:46 PST 2007
Peter: Just wanted to report yet another happy customer for
ISOLINUX. Have been using it successfully for several months
as the loader/menu for my bootable CD/DVD projects. ISOLINUX
isn't nearly as quirky as GRUB and given the latest improvement
on the documentation front, I even have the graphical splssh+menu
I looked to GRUB for. Thank you very much.
I have one observation and potential bug to report. For years,
I've had a certain boot floppy I use for diagnostic work. It's
a WIN98 boot floppy incl Doc Memory, the RAM diagnostic. Unfortunately,
the ever-reliable Doc Memory will not boot from a floppy image
loaded by MEMDISK. It simply crashes. During testing under VMWare,
it starts testing RAM, but it begins by checking a very high range of
RAM addresses and almost immed crashes w/ a stack fault. When
booting normally, the program locks immed upon engaging the RAM
test sequence.
I've recently confirmed that the floppy image itself hasn't been
corrupted by making/testing a floppy from the image file. I haven't
tried MEMDISK from the 3.36 release, as I don't recall any mention of
updates to the utility in the change log.
If it meaningful, I can provide an image file. Thanx again for
excellent software....
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