[syslinux] interesting problem...

[H. Peter Anvin]

ishwar ramani wrote:
> 
> my platform configuration is supermicro motherboards with award bios.
> 
> So far I have been successful in loading the DOS environment, required for
> my flashing program (awdflash.exe), using memdisk. But once i start running
> the exe, it starts loading the boot image and pauses. Even when i ignore the
> dire warnings of not to reboot the machine and do it, the old bios is
> intact.
> 
> i have heard that some BIOS flashing programs need to run in real mode to
> work. Does memdisk by DEFAULT go into protected mode? Where/how does it
> store the floppy image in memory?
> 

Try passing the "raw" or "bigraw" option to memdisk.

	-hpa