[syslinux] Proper way to boot memtest86

[Nazo]

On 9/20/05, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez <gustavo at compunauta.com> wrote:
> Hello list, any try the new memtest86 v3.2 with isolinux 3.11 cd and pxeboot?
> How is the proper way to chainload memtest86
> 
> I was tried:
> label memtest
> kernel memtest.bin
> 
> but, nothing happens just a weird hang (my older versions of memtest hangs
> too). Anyway chainloading in a floppy image with memdisk on CD or pxeboot was
> fine but if I use memory to emulate a floppy I was not using this memory to
> be tested.
> 
> May be is not the way, but on my old disks memtest was using just a label and
> kernel otion for te binary image, and I just replace the old memtest with the
> new one to use the image on pxeboot and my rescue CDs.
> 
> Any try?
> 
> :)
> --
> Gustavo Guillermo Pérez
> Compunauta uLinux
> www.compunauta.com
> 
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My impression from what you've said is that you've run into the rather
painful annoying problem I've run into in the past.  The file
distributed on the main site is a floppy image with unused bits
removed, causing things like memdisk to get upset or something along
those lines.  The easiest way I found to get it working in my case was
to mount the disk image in something and extract the kernel image and
initrd image, then boot those as a normal linux kernel would via
syslinux.  I think I read that if you specified certain exact commands
on the command line you could get the disk image to work, but, it
doesn't seem worth all the extra effort.

(Sorry for the sort of "double post."  I'm STILL not used to mailing lists...)