[syslinux] memdisk - reboot loaded image

Puckett, Richard H. richard.puckett at ngc.com
Tue Apr 5 16:03:34 PDT 2005


Is there a method to reboot a memdisk (floppy) image?

I'm working on a DOS-based installation floppy that needs to repartition the hard disk
prior to proceeding.  DOS will only recognize the updated partition table after a reboot, but
I'd like to be able to save information to the currently loaded memdisk floppy disk and
simply reboot the image.  Possible?

I haven't had any luck with pboot, loadlin (for reasons discussed in the archives), or other
programs I have available.  I would think this is possible as the memdisk provided RAM disk
is loaded prior to DOS.  Am I missing something here?

Any insights would be appreciated.

- Rick





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