[syslinux] memdisk boot failure

Wagner Ferenc wferi at niif.hu
Tue Dec 11 14:02:51 PST 2007


Hi,

I'm trying to boot Feature Tool 2.08 (free download from
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm) from a pen drive
via memdisk.  QEMU can boot the pen drive all right, my ThinkPad
can't:

Loading ftool208.img.........................ready.
MEMDISK 3.53 2007-11-17  Copyright 2001-2007 H. Peter Anvin
e820: 0000000000000000 000000000009f000 1
e820: 000000000009f000 0000000000001000 2
e820: 00000000000dc000 0000000000024000 2
e820: 0000000000100000 000000001f5e0000 1
e820: 000000001f6e0000 0000000000017000 3
e820: 000000001f6f7000 0000000000002000 4
e820: 000000001f700000 0000000000800000 2
e820: 000000001ff00000 0000000000100000 2
e820: 00000000ff800000 0000000000400000 2
e820: 00000000ffc00000 0000000000400000 2
Ramdisk at 0x1f578000, length 0x00168000
command line: initrd=ftool208.img BOOT_IMAGE=memdisk
Disk is floppy 0, 1440 K, C/H/S = 80/2/18, EDD off
Total size needed = 2356 bytes, allocating 3K
Old dos memory at 0x9f000 (map says 0x9f000), loading at 0x9e400
1588: 0xffff  15E801: 0x3c00 0x1e57
INT 13 08: Success, count = 0, BPT = 0000:0000
old: int13 = f00067c1  int15 = f00067c6
new: int13 = 9e40000a  int15 = 9e40037c
Loading boot sector... booting...
Starting PC DOS...


And the cursor sits here blinking until I press Ctrl-Alt-Del.
I tried version 3.08 and 3.54-pre1 with the same result.  raw, bigraw,
safeint or edd didn't help either.  What should I try now?
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.




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