[syslinux] MEMDISK and Doc Memory

[J.H.]

Did you try the raw, bigraw, etc options that are listed on the webiste?

- John 'Warthog9'

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 08:37 -0500, Duke McAllister wrote:
> Peter:  Just wanted to report yet another happy customer for 
> ISOLINUX.  Have been using it successfully for several months 
> as the loader/menu for my bootable CD/DVD projects.  ISOLINUX 
> isn't nearly as quirky as GRUB and given the latest improvement 
> on the documentation front, I even have the graphical splssh+menu 
> I looked to GRUB for.  Thank you very much.
> 
> I have one observation and potential bug to report.  For years, 
> I've had a certain boot floppy I use for diagnostic work.  It's 
> a WIN98 boot floppy incl Doc Memory, the RAM diagnostic.  Unfortunately,
> the ever-reliable Doc Memory will not boot from a floppy image 
> loaded by MEMDISK.  It simply crashes.  During testing under VMWare, 
> it starts testing RAM, but it begins by checking a very high range of 
> RAM addresses and almost immed crashes w/ a stack fault.  When 
> booting normally, the program locks immed upon engaging the RAM 
> test sequence.
> 
> I've recently confirmed that the floppy image itself hasn't been 
> corrupted by making/testing a floppy from the image file.  I haven't 
> tried MEMDISK from the 3.36 release, as I don't recall any mention of
> updates to the utility in the change log.
> 
> If it meaningful, I can provide an image file.  Thanx again for 
> excellent software....
> 
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