[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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