[syslinux] Re: [fd-dev] Problem with memdisk and Free FDISK
Patrick J. LoPresti
patl at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jul 7 12:00:16 PDT 2003
"Brian E. Reifsnyder" <reifsnyderb at mindspring.com> writes:
> > Browsing the fdisk source code, I suspect I could work around this
> > problem by setting "EMULATE_DISK=1", but since my copy of fdisk.exe
> > does not have debugging enabled, this option is not recognized.
>
> Nope. The EMULATE_DISK function only creates a fake simulation of a
> hard disk in the buffers used by Free FDISK.
As long as it makes it skip drive 1 and move on to drive 2, that would
actually be enough.
But it would be a hack, anyhow. I would much prefer to see Free FDISK
and memdisk play together nicely.
> > Questions:
> >
> > 1) Where can I obtain a copy of fdisk.exe with DEBUG enabled? (Do I
> > have to purchase Borland C++ and build it myself?)
>
> If you would like, I could compile one for you.
If we can get this fixed easily, that will not be necessary...
> My first thought would be that it is in memdisk. But, I am not
> familiar with PXELINUX. My guess, from your description, is that
> you are attempting to run Free FDISK from within an emulated DOS
> machine (DOS Emu? Bochs?).
It is real Microsoft DOS 6.22, but on a virtual disk. memdisk hooks
the BIOS to create a virtual drive from which you can boot DOS (among
other things). I use it in my project
(http://unattended.sourceforge.net/) to support booting from CD-ROM
and from the network.
You can download the source from the SYSLINUX home page at
<http://syslinux.zytor.com/>.
> I suppose that it would be possible to add the capability to
> selectively support interupt 0x13 extensions. For example, change
> Free FDISK such that you could instruct it to use interrupt 0x13
> extensions with disk 1 but not with disk 2. I don't think it would
> be too hard to do this. What do you think?
That would solve my problem. Although it might be conceptually
simpler to just skip drive 1 entirely when I tell fdisk to operate on
drive 2...
But having these tools work together seamlessly would be even better.
Thanks!
- Pat
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