[syslinux] PXEboot large image creation

[Cristi Mitrana]

On 1/27/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
[..]
> >>
> >>   kernel ::/memdisk
> >>    append initrd=bigDos.imz c=320 h=2 s=32 harddisk
> >
> > That worked, but I don't seem to be able to mount it after uncompressing
> > it:
> >
> > # mount -o loop bigDos.img /tmp/1
> > mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >
>
> Since it's a hard disk image, you have to specify the filesystem offset;
> this is *usually* the number of sectors * 512 bytes.  If there is a
> DOSEMU header, you have to add 128:
>
> mount -o loop,offset=16512 bigDos.img /tmp/1

 Yep, that works. Can you please add this information to the
README.usbkey where the  mkdiskimage usage is explained ?


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mitu