[syslinux] the ugly win98

Josef Siemes jsiemes at web.de
Tue Aug 12 06:52:50 PDT 2003


Hi,

"beta coni" <betaconi at hotmail.com> schrieb am 12.08.03 14:52:29:
> For a special task whit win98 i need to boot this sytem in a image of 160mb 
> (created with virtualpc 5.2 and dskread) with memdisk, but the system shows 
> me an error whit the master boot record and switchs
> in dos compatibility mode.

I don't know what you created, but syslinux needs a disk image: with an MBR
and a partition with the data. It's not enough to have just the partition in the image.
If virtualpc already has a disk device perhaps you can grab this via dd or the like.

Regards,

Josef

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