[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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