[syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK

[sandin]

I tried setting the ABIOSDSK service to 0 (Boot) and loaded a 550mb image of a hard disk into ram using isolinux + memdisk.  It blue screened with the 0x7B (inaccessible boot device).  Is it possible that using pxelinux would yeild a different result?



----- Original Message ----
From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 1:11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK

Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
> Nope, windows needs a miniport driver to access the boot volume.
> 
> ABIOSDSK looks at the bios information, which strictly speaking syslinux
> doesn't affect.

Well, MEMDISK does install a BIOS hook for the memory disk, so it might 
work.  I would be very interested in knowing.

    -hpa

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