[syslinux] MEMDISK - floppy=1 Outputs: Disk is hard disk, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/20/18

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Sep 2 07:53:15 PDT 2005


Harald_Jensas at Dell.com wrote:
> 
> If I change to "APPEND raw floppy initrd=CERC6.IMG" I get "Disk is floppy, 1440 K..."
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Is this the expected behaviour?
>  
> I notice that if I boot MS-DOS from the harddrive after loading the image as "floppy=1" it is available as B:
> 
> The reason I need the image to be loaded as B: is that Windows Installer treats B: different from A: making it possible to use SYSLINUX/MEMDISK to load Mass Storage drivers during install.
> 

You're using an old version of MEMDISK.

You're also sending the same message three times, which is highly 
obnoxious behaviour.

	-hpa




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