[syslinux] Memdisk booting XP DOS

Murali Krishnan Ganapathy gmurali at cs.uchicago.edu
Mon Feb 16 07:45:15 PST 2004


Bob Whitworth wrote:

> Memdisk 2.08 does not appear to be able to boot an XP DOS image (it 
> starts to boot and then hangs).  XP DOS appears to be borrowed from 
> WinME (v4.90.3000).  I was trying to make a multiple boot CD with 
> Bart's method:
>
> http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#multimemdisk
>
> but substituting Brads TCP boot disk instead of Barts:
>
> http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootdisk/index.htm
>
> Brad uses XPs DOS as it is smaller than 98s (which Memdisk has no 
> trouble with).  For the time being I will convert Brads disk to 98SE 
> DOS but I will have to loose some drivers to make room.
>
Memdisk can boot from large floppy disk images (say 10MB or more). So 
you have all the space you want for all the drivers.. See the archives 
for more information (a few days old).

- Murali




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