[syslinux] MEMDISK and ABIOSDSK

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jacob Alifrangis wrote:
> I bet.....
> 
> That microsoft is clearing the memory regions that the disk is occupying
> before starting, there are some kernel parameters in the boot.ini that can
> exclude memory regions, look it up in msdn, there's a /exclude= parameter,
> that you can pass during the early boot process. What I would suggest is to
> find out where syslinux is storing the image, and lockout that region.
> 
> Might be worth a shot.
> 

That would mean Microsoft isn't honouring E820 reserved memory regions, 
which would be very strange.

However, it is entirely plausible that MEMDISK is doing something that 
Microsoft don't expect.


	-hpa