[syslinux] Memdisk & XP MS-Dos Startup Disk with Oformat

[Blaauw,Bernd B.]

You are out of luck if MS did hardcode OFORMAT/CVTAREA to only accept Windows Millennium Edition.

An alternative I can think of is downloading FreeDOS and use VERSION=8.00 in config.sys

also ask MS why WinME kernel does not boot from MEMDISK.
I doubt MEMDISK would be the problem.

if you use the FreeDOS FREECOM program, you can change versions for programs:
CALLVER 8.00 oformat.exe oformat-options

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/freecom/packages/TESTING/com082pl3ak/xmsswap.zip
http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/callver.zip

CALLVER starts FreeCOM with the wanted version info.

So a WinME bootdisk, and replace command.com by the freedos version.
Add callver program

Make sure your config.sys will have the following line:
SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /P 

hope this will help you,

Bernd


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