[syslinux] Is There an Alternative to MEMDISK ?

J.H. warthog19 at eaglescrag.net
Thu Apr 26 13:22:25 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 14:51 -0500, Duke McAllister wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> > To: "Duke McAllister" <mr-roboto at linuxmail.org>
> > Subject: Re: [syslinux] Is There an Alternative to MEMDISK ?
> > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:00:58 -0700
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > MEMDISK isn't out of the picture as long as you're still accessing the
> > "disk".
> > 
> > It's quite possible Doc Mem overwrites MEMDISK, despite MEMDISK's best
> > efforts at protecting itself.  Other options, of course, is usual (try
> > raw, bigraw, etc.)
> > 
> > 	-hpa
> >
> 
> Peter:  Of course, you're rite.  Forgot about that.  But WRT raw, bigraw, and safeint: been there done that.  No joy....
> 

I'll mention again I have docmem v1.45a and v2.1b working with pxe
knife, no raw,bigraw,safeint,etc being done so I'm not entirely sure
what I'm doing differently than you but it works.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley




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