[syslinux] booting on a dos software

[robotti at godmail.com]

>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?

I guess when powermax.exe is extracted and run from Windows,
it offers to create a bootable floppy.

You can use memdisk to boot the floppy image.

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy.img

label powermax
kernel memdisk
append initrd=floppy.img