[syslinux] booting on a dos software

Mikey Sklar sklarm at electric-clothing.com
Thu Aug 11 08:55:58 PDT 2005


Have you considered using smartctl to read the S.M.A.R.T bits off the
disk to see the drive status?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 05:24:44PM +0200, Vanessa Conchodon wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've got a USB key with several tools (small linux, memtest86+)
> booting via syslinux.
> But now I have to add powermax.exe (a MSDOS tool to test Maxtor
> disks) on this key.
> As I've always been on Unix/Linux system, I don't know what
> to do to run powermax.exe from syslinux.
> I've made a boot floppy disk and tried to copy everything
> on my usb key and put the command.com in kernel field but
> all I have was "COMBOOT image too large".
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 		Vanessa.
> -- 
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