[syslinux] Memdisk and USB Floppy

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andy Wray wrote:
> I just wanted to chime in and mention that I'm running into the problem
> with getting a "Non-system disk..." error on a system using a USB floppy
> when the floppy is not attached when I try to boot the system over the
> network using memdisk to boot a floppy image.  Its actually fairly
> important to be able to do this, as the architecture of the hardware
> that I'm working with utilizes a single USB floppy that is shared across
> multiple machines and there is no way to add a normal floppy.  So to use
> memdisk right now, I have to boot the floppy image over the network
> serially, rather than in parallel.
> 
> I had been using bpbatch without this problem on these systems, but I'm
> trying to move off of it (it won't boot the installation kernel from the
> SuSE 8.1 CDs).  Of course, I know bpbatch is not open-source, so
> figuring out how it does things is probably difficult at best.
> 

This is pretty much impossible to diagnose without access to the hardware.

	-hpa