[syslinux] Important feature missing: Floppy booting from 2 disks

[Christian Marg]

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Hello...

Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
| Well, I can't manage to boot of a 1.44 MB floppy. I simple don't manage to
| squeeze a useful modern kernel & initrd on that. Don't tell me I'm the
| only person with that problem. Yes, I know: CD or PXE boot is much better,
| but there are situations where you need a floppy.

This Feature Request was on this list once before.
Check the List Archives (03/2003) for the thread
"Syslinux: Multi-Disks [feature]".

I suggested a workaround to the asking ROCK Linux maintainer (Clifford
Wolf... He has built a package from it:

~ Clifford Wolf wrote:
| Just FYI: I've create a template disk image + small shell script for
| creating a multi-disk linux boot floppies for kernels and/or initrd's
| with a size > 1.44 MB. It's based on FreeDOS Beta 8, the XMSdsk ramdisk
| and Loadlin:
|
| 	http://www.rocklinux.org/people/clifford/MDLBL/
|
| I primary wrote it for ROCK Linux <www.rocklinux.org> but it might be
| usefull for everyone who wants to boot larger (2.5) kernels from floppies.

bye
Christian
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