[syslinux] booting memtest86 with syslinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Joel Brooks Ebel wrote:
> I'm building a custom bootdisk that I would like to boot linux or
> boot memtest86 (www.memtest86.com).  And I'm running into some
> difficulties with recent versions of syslinux.  All I'm doing is making a
> new label in syslinux.cfg called memtest and giving it kernel memtest.bin.

The ending .bin now has special meaning.  Rename the file.

> This has worked on and off for several recent versions of memtest.  It
> worked in 1.67, broke in 1.70(loads image and reboots), worked in 1.71 and
> 1.72, and broke again in 1.73, and hasn't worked since, including 2.0.
> 1.73 and 1.74 load the image and just stop.  1.75 and later print one '.'
> to the screen, make a nasty floppy drive noise and then repeatedly display
> 0400 until I turn off the computer.
> 
> I suppose it would be easy for me to just use one of the working releases,
> but I like to use latest versions when possible.  I also thought this
> might be something you may be interested in having working, since this
> would be something very useful to do with many linux bootdisks.

	-hpa