[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Dec 1 21:37:31 PST 2003
ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
>
> BTW, if I give memdisk a hard disk image, can one make sure that DOS
> recognizes it not as C: but some thing later, i.e. make DOS assign drive
> letters to the regular hard disks first and then assign one to the
> memdisk image?
>
I just thought about this some more, and realized it doesn't really
work: DOS, in particular, can only boot from either the first floppy
disk or from the first hard disk.
Thus, even if MEMDISK could do it it wouldn't be useful.
But again, you're not limited to 2.88 MB for a floppy image.
-hpa
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