[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions%3

Gary W. Smith gary at primeexalia.com
Sat Aug 20 15:12:46 PDT 2005


I tried the commands that you have presented and I running into
problems.  I tried the ideology that you presented with both 32 and 16mb
configurations with no luck.  Is there something that I'm missing?

The win98se boot disk boots (just downloaded it from bootdisk today) so
I used that as a based for the boot file.

Item 8c works fine (1.44 image) but 8b fails.

dd if=/dev/zero of=boot32mb.bin bs=1M count=16
/sbin/mkdosfs boot32mb.bin
ms-sys -f -6 boot32mb.bin
mount -o loop boot32mb.bin boot32mb
cp win98se/msdos.sys boot32mb/
cp win98se/io.sys boot32mb/
cp win98se/command.sys boot32mb/
cp win98se/command.com boot32mb/
umount boot32mb

With the entry in default of:

label 8b 
   kernel memdisk
   append initrd=bigboot/boot32mb.bin
label 8c
   kernel memdisk
   append initrd=bigboot/win98se.bin

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Aug 20 13:48 boot32mb
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 16777216 Aug 20 14:38 boot32mb.bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     7168 Dec 31  1969 win98se
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1474560 Aug 20 13:29 win98se.bin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com]
On
> Behalf Of Gary W. Smith
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 12:36 PM
> To: robotti at godmail.com; syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: RE: [syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions%3
> 
> Makes sense and that's exactly what I want to do.  I need to download
> ms-sys from SF but I'll give it a try tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gary




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