[syslinux] Pxelinux/memdisk with XP "MS-DOS" boot disk
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Dec 30 14:18:55 PST 2003
dpetersen55 at new.rr.com wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick response hpa. It's got a config.sys and
> autoexec.bat, but with the simple case of a fresh XP boot disk they're
> both empty. It doesn't seem like the traditional MS-DOS boot disk, it
> is entirely possible they're making an assumption somewhere in the boot
> code which isn't correct when loaded with memdisk. The reason the
> universal disk I mentioned above requires this particular type of boot
> disk is because it is significantly smaller than the old 95/98 disk.
>
I suspect if you delete the hidden file DRVSPACE.BIN it'll be fairly
similar.
Anyway, I've confirmed this problem... it's pretty hard to debug,
however; I'll see if I can run it in a simulation environment and
reproduce the problem.
-hpa
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