[syslinux] Bug-report: Booting DOS images from USB

[Pedro M.]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
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>>Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> writes:
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>>>I have the same behaviour. It freezes after booting DOS.
>>
>>What do you have in your config.sys?
> 
> 
> It's the latest image taken from the FreeDOS project page.
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> 
>>The FreeDOS and MS-DOS cases might be completely different.  As I know
>>from hard experience :-), the current FreeDOS himem.exe has some
>>issues with memdisk (which will be fixed soon).
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> 
> Ok, but I fear it may not work since every single OS has problems booting 
> except Linux 2.2 and Linux 2.4.
> 
> These images are on my usbstick and I have tried them all using my 
> usbstick. If I find the time later today I'll test them from my own system 
> to see if that works.
> 
> 
This about Dos / USB and Linux is important.

For example, to boot my www.transcendusa.com USB key I need to have ( I 
advice to everybody don't buy it to use with Linux ) a DOS booting and 
them jump to Linux.

So, I cannot use http://flonix.tuxfamily.org in my usbstick.

I suggest create a special groups about USB booting.


Regards.