[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions?

[Quinn]

Matt Walsh wrote:

>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't memdisk supposed to support using
>>a harddisk image? 
>>    
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>
>It's supposed to but doesn't - at least with the current version - or at
>least with the directions I've used.
>
>I had the same issue as this most excellent person Giulio...
>http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2005-February/004773.html
>
>...and so I emailed him.  He said he went backwards till he found an old
>version that works.  Voila, if you use MEMDISK 2.11, it works.  He told me
>that he posted this to the list but got no response.
>
>The old version hangs like this:
>
>Ramdisk at 0x005df000, length 0x00a00080
>command line: initrd=image.dsk harddisk c=10 h=64 s=32 BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk
>MEMDISK: image has a fractional end sector
>Disk is hard disk, 10240 K, C/H/S = 10/63/32
>Total size needed = 1897 bytes, allocating 2K
>Old dos memory at 0x9f800 (map says 0x9f800), loading at 0x9f000
>1588: 0x137c 15E801: 0x137c 0x0000
>INT 13 08: Success, count = 2, BPT = 0000:0000
>old: int13 = eb8b3dc9   int15 =  f0005d34
>new: int13 = 9f000008   int15 =  9f000286
>Loading boot sector... booting...
><hangs here>
>
>-mw
>  
>
This is the exact problem I have on IBM machines.  Any Non-IBM machine 
boots perfectly with USB->memdisk->dosimage procedure.
Do you perchance be testing this on a IBM machine?

Quinn