[syslinux] MEMDISK - floppy=1 Outputs: Disk is hard disk, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/20/18
Harald_Jensas at Dell.com
Harald_Jensas at Dell.com
Fri Sep 2 08:00:27 PDT 2005
Hi,
Sorry about the three messages in a row, I tried to attach a message and
it seemed to bounce.
With a new verision of MEMDISK everything now work just fine!
Thank you!
Best Regards
Harald
-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com]
Sent: den 2 september 2005 16:53
To: Jensas, Harald
Cc: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] MEMDISK - floppy=1 Outputs: Disk is hard disk,
1440 K, C/H/S = 80/20/18
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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