[syslinux] Memdisk and USB Floppy

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.
> 

I should say, there probably are things I could guess at.  It would 
really help to get all the messages MEMDISK spits out at the beginning 
-- that's kind of the whole point of them.

I make no promises... after all, I don't get paid for this work. 
(Although I appreciate the donations I've gotten so far -- thanks guys 
-- it's not even close to offsetting my costs.)

	-hpa