[syslinux] Updating BIOS with pxe syslinux memdisk & DOS problems

[Jeff Black]

> Alex Ninaber wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Supermicro has just sent me an DOS image that does work. It is a
hack,
> but
> > clearly one that works and probably will work for all BIOses. As
their
> > autoexec.bat they use the following:
> >
> 
> WARNING!!!
> 
> If you use this on a machine which has a DOS-visible hard drive
> partition it will overwrite you hard disk!!!!!!
> 
> They should be using the result from findramd (find ramdisk), but
> instead they are hard-coding the use of C:!
> 
> 	-hpa
agreed.

>From what I can see in the script it appears fairly benign though. They
are copying a subdirectory of the floppy to c:\. It'll clutter your hard
drive, and might overwrite a file or two (doubt it..) but nothing
catastrophic. Definitely lazy of them though...

	-Jeff