FW: [syslinux] pxelinux and bar

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ardill, Robert (DTEI) wrote:
> 
> To answer to question... memdisk won't work with Windows. Windows uses
> 32bit access (direct HW access) and memdisk relies on the BIOS. Any
> programs that don't use the BIOS disk interfaces will not work. The
> other problem is the allocation of memory. Windows doesn't respect the
> memdisk allocation.
> 

The first problem is correct (a driver would be necessary); the second 
isn't, however.  Windows -- or any other OS which uses BIOS calls to 
obtain the memory map -- will respect the memdisk memory reservation.

	-hpa