[syslinux] Memdisk

[ganapathy murali krishnan]

If you are building a boot CD, you should be able to get around using 
the XP CD boot sector and booting off the CD directly instead of using a 
floppy image.

- Murali

Bob Whitworth wrote:

> Memdisk 2.08 cannot boot an XP boot floppy image (XP appears to use 
> WinME boot files for its bootable floppy).  For example:
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/download.htm
>
> This disk will not boot with Memdisk (Memdisk starts to load the image 
> and then hangs).   I'm using Bart's tools to build a boot CD:
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/corpmodboot/
>
> Which uses Isolinux and Memdisk.
>
>
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