[syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK

[sandin]

There was only a CD-ROM...



----- Original Message ----
From: Jacob Alifrangis <jalifrangis at authenticlick.net>
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 8:53:19 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK

If there's a harddisk in the machine, try using 1 on the abiosdsk service.




On 3/17/08 5:40 PM, "sandin" <deiloohay at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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