[syslinux] DOCMEMORY 2.0 (simmtester) and MEMDISK

[H. Peter Anvin]

Phillip Remaker wrote:
>>>I don't know how docmemory figures out where it shouldn't write, or what
>>>mechanisms exist to communicate that information, but hopefull people on
>>>this mailing list will 8-)
>>>
>>
>>What it *SHOULD* use is INT 15h, AX=E820h.
> 
> 
> So basically, this is a problem with the application, and there is nothing
> that MEMDISK can do?

Correct.

> Is there anything I can do as a mere mortal to trobleshoot and provide
> useful information back to developers, either of MEMDISK, or the
> applications that are unfriendly to MEMDISK?

Tell then the above.

> Is there any other reason that it would hand when starting the memory test?
> Just the failure to make the right query about the memory map?  Is this a
> FREEDOS issue, or an application issue?  Or a
> way-the-application-uses-FreeDOS issue?

I don't know.  FreeDOS have historically had problems, but they use
MEMDISK themselves, so I doubt it's them.

	-hpa