[syslinux] DOS Drive B: Hung

Yutan ml at dm.daiba.cx
Tue Feb 17 09:47:11 PST 2004


When it accesses a real floppy disk, it seems to do Hung
when the boot disk of MS-DOS (Win95/98/Me) was able
to be started by using ISOLinux.

example)
 Not inserted Floppydisk
 A>dir b:
 error message A/R/F ?
 A>

 inserted Floppydisk
 A>dir b:
  ....hung....

It seems to do Hung in Real PC though the phenomenon
like place tested with VMware was not Hung.

There was no problem in a usual floppy disk 
emurate that did not use ISOLinux at all. 

My hardware environment is as follows.

CPU Pentium3 933MHz Dual
Memory DDR SDRAM 256Mbytes X 4
MB Iwill DVD-266R
HDD : IBM 30G
CD-ROM : All SCSI CD-ROM (TekRam DC390F Pioneer DVD-ROM, TEAC CD-R, TEAC
CD-ROM)
Using ISOLinux and MEMDISK 2.08, 2.09-pre12

prompt 1
default 1
ontimeout 1
display DOS.TXT
timeout 300
label 1
 kernel memdisk
 append initrd=W95DOS.GZ
label 2
 kernel memdisk
 append initrd=W98DOS.GZ
label 3
 kernel memdisk
 append initrd=WMEDOS.GZ

All Diskimage is 2.88M Floppy image.





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