[syslinux] problem booting msdos with memdisk

[Quinn Plattel]

Hi Peter,

Sorry, no go.  All three options don't have any effect.
grub4dos 0.4.2pre8 works fine though.

Quinn

On 9/28/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> Quinn Plattel wrote:
> > Try using grub4dos.  I have had exactly the same problem as you on all
> > IBM Thinkpad machines with syslinux's memdisk - Dell machines work
> > fine though.  I reported this problem almost 2 years ago but no
> > solution was found then.
> >
> > Use grub4dos v 0.4.1 - it is the most stable at the moment.  Here is
> > an example syslinux.cfg:
> >
> > default grub.exe --config-file="map --mem dosfloppy.gz (fd0); map
> > --hook; chainloader (fd0)+1; rootnoverify (fd0); boot"
> >
>
> Intriguing.  I tried to figure out what they did differently, and I
> think I've figured out what they do.  I have pushed out a
> syslinux-3.32-pre1, which includes a new "safeint" mode to MEMDISK.
>
> Could you try this version of MEMDISK with the "safeint" option turned
> on on one of the machines that break for you?  Also, does either "raw"
> or "bigraw" work on those machines?
>
>         -hpa
>