[syslinux] memdisk not booting .ima unless there is a floppy drive

[rich w]

> A detailed description of the messages printed *might* give a clue why
> it's failing on your particular machine.
>
> -hpa

This is what it displays (its identical wether the machine has a floppy or not):


Loading memdisk....
Loading /syslinux/images/ghost/hp.ima...................................
.........ready
MEMDISK 3.52 2007-09-25 Copyright 2001-2007 H. Peter Anvin
e820: 0000000000000000 00000000009f0000 1
e820: 00000000000f0000 0000000000010000 2
e820: 00000000fec00000 0000000001400000 2
e820: 00000000e0000000 0000000010000000 2
e820: 000000001bef3000 000000000000d000 3
e820: 000000001bef0000 0000000000003000 4
e820: 000000000009f000 0000000000001000 2
e820: 0000000000100000 000000001bdf0000 1
Ramdisk at 0x1bc20000, length 0x002d0000
command line: initrd=\syslinux\images\ghost\hp.ima BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk
Disk is floppy 0, 2880 K, C/H/S = 80/2/36, EDD off
Total size needed = 2376 bytes, allocating 3K
Old dos memory at 0x9f000 (map says 0x9f000), loading at 0x9e400
1588: 0xffff  15E801: 0x3c00 0x1ac2
INT 13 08: Success, count = 1, BPT = 0000:0000
old: int13 = f0007f90  int15 = f000f859
new: int13 = 9e40000a  int15 = 9e40037c
Loading boot sector... booting...


And if theres a floppy drive it then says starting PC Dos and boots, otherwise it just
hangs there with a flashing cursor.
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