[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions?

[Matt Walsh]

I got the same error.  -mw

--- "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Matt Walsh wrote:
> >>Correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't memdisk supposed to support using
> >>a harddisk image? 
> > 
> > 
> > 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>
> > 
> 
> This looks like a DOSEMU image, with a DOSEMU header; can you please 
> remove the geometry overrides (harddisk c=10 h=64 s=32) from your 
> command line and see what happens?
> 
> 	-hpa
>