[syslinux] PXEboot large image creation

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Jan 30 11:44:22 PST 2006


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

One more thing on this topic:

Note also that mkdiskimage has the -o option, which prints out the 
offset you will need to use to stdout.

	-hpa




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