[syslinux] memdisk as A: and B:?

Velu Erwan erwan at seanodes.com
Tue Aug 16 07:39:07 PDT 2005


> 	For background on what we are trying to do, the windows installer can
> load driver updates from a memdisk image. The problem is that it then
> switches to protected mode and tries to copy the driver from the disk.
> This, of course, fails because at that point windows is using its own
> protected mode floppy handler and not int13. But, there is a workaround.
> If the floppy is B:, windows will treat the floppy specially, as a
> "virtual" floppy, loading the entire image into memory before switching
> to protected mode. This means that driver updates would be possible
> using memdisk.
Memdisk seems to have two options for this issue : raw or bigraw.
This options seems to address this problem, does it solves yours ?
(cf memdisk/memdisk.doc)

Erwan,




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