[syslinux] Proper way to boot memtest86

[H. Peter Anvin]

Nazo wrote:
> 
> 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...)
> 

Well, there are several different memdisk images distributed.  I think 
the "bootable binary" is the one you need, and it needs to *not* be 
named .bin.

	-hpa