[syslinux] Syslinux cannot load memtest 86

Giulio Orsero giulioo at pobox.com
Mon Feb 3 15:25:59 PST 2003


On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 14:45:20 -0800, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

>> What would the config in isolinux.cfg to boot the memtest86 floppy image? ( 
>> it's a 1.44 )
>
>The best bet for the floppy image is to not use isolinux, but make the
>floppy image the El Torito boot image.
>

FYI, I'm using ISOLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25, this is extract of isolinux.cfg
==
...
label 2
    kernel mem28
 
label 3
    kernel mem30
...
===
memtest86 2.8 and 3.0 boot ok both in vmware and real hardware.

mem28 and mem30 are the precompiled memtest images found in the memtest
tarball.

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giulioo at pobox.com



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