[syslinux] Disabling MEMDISK

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 6 12:50:45 PDT 2004


Alexander Heinz wrote:
>> I have added instructions to memdisk.doc for how to disable MEMDISK. 
>> However, it's unlikely that this will work if you're running under 
>> DOS, since DOS will be very unhappy about drives changing underneath it.
> 
> 
> My goal is to boot DOS/FreeDOS via memdisk, do a few things and disable 
> the virtual floppy created by memdisk and continue to boot the local 
> hard disk or an etherboot .com file.
> 
> So is there a way to delete the virtual floppy and load a .com file 
> afterwards (probably not because there is no longer a ramdisk to store 
> it) or a way to combine the program that deletes the virtual floppy with 
> the etherboot .com file?
> 

You'd have to put the MEMDISK-disabling code into the .com file, presuambly.

	-hpa




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