[syslinux] Planning a 2.08 release

[Murali Krishnan Ganapathy]

OK. So booting from a hard disk image is a no go if one is trying to 
install windows :-(
Can one still "mount" two floppy images with MEMDISK (or have this 
feature in MEMDISK)? I guess I am asking this only out of curiousity, 
since as you said I can have one larger floppy image. To create such an 
image I do the following right?

1. Create an empty file of appropriate size
2. Mount as loop back device.
3. Use mkdosfs to format the filesystem passing it the appropriate C,H,S 
parameters.
4. Mount this loop back device, and put the appropriate files there.

Only question is that if there is a utility to copy the boot sector off 
a working image (possibly different size) and put it into this 
non-standard floppy image? As I read on this list, a sector based dd 
wont help, as the boot sector also has the geomety encoded?

- Murali

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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
>
>