[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions?

[Matt Walsh]

I'm having this problem on an Intel Xeon server board.  I've also retested
on a very recent Intel Desktop board and it has the same exact problem.

-mw

--- Quinn <plattel at tiscali.dk> 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>
> >
> >-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
> 
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