[syslinux] Memdisk + Loadlin.exe
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Thu Aug 25 15:31:30 PDT 2005
Quinn wrote:
> Dave Fulgham wrote:
>
>> Can I boot to memdisk using loadlin.exe?
>>
> You should be able to do it. memdisk is in linux kernel format so
> something like: "loadlin.exe c:\memdisk initrd=c:\dos710.img" should
> load the dos 7.1 boot floppy image dos710.img into a virtual A: drive
> and boot from there.
>
It won't work, though. Loadlin uses some special hooks into the Linux
kernel that Memdisk doesn't implement.
-hpa
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