[syslinux] booting memdisk from grub

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Apr 30 08:36:10 PDT 2002


James Carter wrote:
> hi, peter.
> 
> i wonder if you can help me with a problem i have. i am attempting to
> use memdisk in conjunction with grub to boot dos floppy images over a
> network. i realise that memdisk was designed to work with syslinux
> rather than grub but i really need some of the extra features of grub
> for my application.
> 
> i has some inital problems getting grub to load memdisk which turned out
> to be grub performing agressive error checking (see
> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-grub/2002-April/007122.html). this is
> now fixed and grub seems to load memdisk and the floppy image quite
> happily. when it tries to boot, however, it just hangs.
> 
> is what i'm trying to do possible? if so, do you have aby idea what i
> might be doing wrong?
> 

I don't have the foggiest.  Sorry.

GRUB does an amazing amount of stupid crap, which is why I don't even 
want to begin to guess in what particular way it's broken.

	-hpa





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